
Moonlight basking and queer courting: The secret lives of freshwater turtles
New research reveals fresh insights into Australian freshwater turtle behaviour, survey methods and conservation strategies.
New research reveals fresh insights into Australian freshwater turtle behaviour, survey methods and conservation strategies.
Fire ants have crossed the Queensland–NSW border for the first time since the infestation of the invasive species began, with the potential to devastate Australia’s natural environment and agriculture industry.
Green sea turtle populations are already becoming increasingly female due to a warming climate. Now pollution may also be contributing to unbalanced sex ratios in the species.
When tropical reefs bleach, due to ocean warming caused by climate change, it’s not only coral and large fish that are affected.
Australia’s frogs are under threat, and the Australian Museum is asking for your help to halt their decline.
Turtle researchers working in the New England Tablelands region have documented repeated sightings of a white platypus.
Unlike nearly every other species of shark, scalloped hammerheads are highly social. They gather in large groups, or aggregations, numbering in the hundreds. But why? We don’t know.
In an example of nature at its absolute wildest, a python has been recorded eating a fellow python alive.
Dingoes are an iconic Australian wild animal, with close links to Australia’s First Nations people throughout the mainland. Yet the origins and history of these animals are shrouded in obscurity.
Citizen scientists across Australia have helped uncover a frog species new to science, which has a longer ‘laugh’ than the original tree frog species.