Creatura with Bec Crew Springtails are kinda cute? …(And it’s not the only one.) Perhaps the cutest springtails are the water springtails. Here’s a photo of two different species, (Sminthurides aquaticus) and (Podura aquatica), hanging out together near…
Nature & Wildlife Shades of cray …an aquatic ecologist, took cray-watching to the next level for her PhD. She attached mini radio-tracker backpacks onto several Fitzroy Falls spiny crayfish to track their daily movements and checked…
Gear Test Used & Abused Review: DMM DRAGAN CAMS …but the Dragon’s is quite large, cupped and easy to use. I often found myself placing the protection with the thumb grip against my palm which was very comfortable and…
Top 10: 2017’s most amazing Australian animal science stories …discovered in 2015 thanks to four specimens preserved in museum collections that had been misidentified as common sea dragons. Unlike the common and leafy sea dragon species which inhabit depths…
Island dwarfs and giants ISLANDS ARE IDEAL places for giants and dwarfs. On certain islands we can find the world’s most enormous lizards (Komodo dragons) and tortoises (Galapagos giant tortoise) and the largest invertebrates…
Nature & Wildlife All the colours of the rainbow: 8 bizarre Australian slugs …on the seafloor, blue dragons will swallow a little air bubble, which allows them to float on the ocean surface but means they’re at the mercy of the weather and…
Creatura with Bec Crew The five-lined flying dragon is a tiny marvel …Technically known as patagia, the patterns on these skin flaps are unique to each species, which allows scientists to pretty easily tell them apart. Here’s the five-lined flying dragon’s wings,…
Nature & Wildlife Small dragon disguises itself as white quartz …finding it is near impossible. (Image credit: Steve Wilson) There are several small lizard species called pebble-mimic dragons that live in Western Australia’s stony, arid lands. They have head-and-body lengths…
Nature & Wildlife The Phuket horned tree agamid has mighty Godzilla spines …world. A member of the Acanthosaura genus of lizards, a group known as the mountain horned dragons, it’s native to the few remaining forest patches in Phuket, Thailand. Discovered by…
This scientist wants you to sunbathe in a storm water channel …think you know something. You don’t know that there’s a local mob of water dragons, about 30 individuals large and that people love it. You don’t know that ducks go…
