Wildlife
Captive kultarrs reveal wild behaviours
Kultarrs are tiny, cryptic creatures that only come out at night. Now, scientists are finally learning how they live.
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News
Aussie explorer to swap snow boots for spacesuit
Australian polar explorer Eric Philips will be launched into space later this month as part of the first crewed mission to orbit the North and South poles.
Video
Extraordinary Animals: Season One | Episode Two | Gluttony
Australian Geographic’s Extraordinary Animals documentary series explores the unique traits of Australia’s iconic wildlife, revealing our most creative, aggressive, social, and curious species.
History & Culture
The tale of a butterfly heist and a taxonomic side-quest
A series of heists on Australian museums 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today.
History & Culture
Notes from the field: Tall tales
Telling the story of Australia’s bunya pines was a refreshing change for wildlife photographer and writer Esther Beaton. For one thing, the trees didn’t move!
Science & Environment
Revealed: the toxic sex life of the blue-lined octopus
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.
News
21 native species added to threatened list
Twenty-one native flora and fauna species have been added to Australia’s federal threatened species list, and six species already on the list have been moved into higher-threat categories.
History & Culture
Tasmania’s forgotten Chinese history
The story of Chinese migrants in North East Tasmania is best explored on the Trail of the Tin Dragon.
Video
Extraordinary Animals: Season One | Episode One | Creativity
Australian Geographic’s Extraordinary Animals documentary series explores the unique traits of Australia’s iconic wildlife, revealing our most creative, aggressive, social, and curious species.
Science & Environment
Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in outback WA
Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be.