Destinations Rainforest to reef: Tropical North Queensland I WAS GOBSMACKED. A massive Queensland groper lazily swam over to my sea kayak before performing the aquatic equivalent of buzzing the tower, swimming directly beneath my watercraft. It was…
News Tasman Sea a “hotspot” for ocean warming …forests provide food and shelter to a huge variety of marine species, their destruction can have severe knock-on effects.” Warming waters have implications for aquaculture, too. “If you want to…
News Dugongs recovering well after flood crisis …World, Sydney Aquarium and Taronga Western Plains Zoo to assess the health and reproductive status of wild dugongs in Moreton Bay. The team has been taking samples of the population,…
History & Culture Great zoo escapes: confessions of a zookeeper …that two freshwater crocodiles had been stolen overnight from the zoo aquarium. It made all the newspapers, television and radio broadcasts. A zoo spokesman claimed that they would probably be…
News Giant platypus had taste for meat …developing understanding about these fascinating mammals.” The experts believe that, similarly to the modern platypus, the fossil species was an aquatic animal that inhabited pools and rivers in the rainforests…
News Ancient crocs came in all shapes and sizes …adds that a few of the terrestrial species even had teeth and jaw designs that may have enabled them to eat plants – again underlining that the specialised, semi-aquatic ambush…
News Bizarre new species stops Pilliga mining …aquatic creatures that live in groundwater or other water-logged, subterranean environments such as caves. The group is made up of a range different species, such as crustaceans, fishes, snails and…
Adventure Switzerland's Jungfrau region …paddling spots, and available aquatic adventures include whitewater rafting and kayaking on the steep, fast-paced and icy cold glacier-fed Lütschine River. Although the coast is far distant, the long, thin…
News Shark deterrent research: WA pledges $2m …going to upset the fine balance of our aquatic ecosystems,” he says. How to avoid shark attacks Christopher Neff, a shark attack researcher at the University of Sydney, says that…
News Leech cocoon fossil is remarkable discovery SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE discovery of a 200-million-year-old soft bodied organism encased in a leech cocoon could begin a series of new fossil discoveries. The ancient Vorticella-like organism, a microscopic aquatic…