History & Culture Victoria’s wild western walk …over aquamarine coves towards Cape Nelson. Another section of the walk visits the Enchanted Forest in a landslip, halfway down a cliff, where haunting moonah trees are draped by curtains…
History & Culture Will this be Australia’s next World Heritage Area? …the site of one of the earliest known aquaculture systems on Earth: Related: Ancient aboriginal settlement one step closer to World Heritage listing Internationally, the World Heritage list contains more…
International Canada’s best on-the-beaten-track adventures …Icefields Parkway, slicing through a lush valley of glaciers, waterfalls and aqua lakes (keep your eyes peeled for moose and grizzly bears). Wander the streets of Banff, home to outdoor…
Destinations A complete guide to Lakes Entrance, VIC …of the largest marlin ever caught (almost 616kg), some unusual corals, sponges and an aquarium containing sea snakes, blue-ringed octopuses and many unusual marine creatures, mostly from Bass Strait. …
Dr Karl: Need to Know Dr Karl explores the shapeshifting world of worm blobs …hornet invades, they wrap their smaller bodies around it and beat their wings at very high speed. This kills the hornet by overheating it. The semi-aquatic California blackworm is an…
Wildlife The fish with a parasite for a partner …But until then what occurs between the two (now one) is a cycle of repeated reproduction. Or, as Theodore W. Pietsch (from University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery…
Science & Environment Join the hunt for shark egg cases …cases from other collections, museums and aquariums around the world. We also have our own specimens collected from fish markets, surveys at sea or extracted from the ovaries of preserved…
Science & Environment Monsters or masters of the deep sea? …to strike at unsuspecting victims. It would be nothing like the shallow-water fish we eat, keep as pets, or pay to see in aquariums. It would be more the stuff…
History & Culture Meet the desert vet who befriended Red Dog, WA’s most famous canine …franchise, branded as Pets and Vets, Shark Bay’s Ocean Park Aquarium managed by his son Ed Fenny, Maitraya Luxury Private Retreat in Albany, on WA’s southern coast, and several pastoral properties….
News Just add water: Australia's wetlands are thriving. Here's why. …Council; Tootagarook Wetland’s aquatic herbland. Bottom from left: Bala (Eulimbah) Swamp, Gayini NSW. Top from left: Gayini Wetlands; Tootgarook Swamp has been restored over the last ten years by private…