Wycliffe Well is a tiny speck off the Stuart Highway in the middle of the Northern Territory, about 130km south of Tennant Creek. The former roadhouse was named after the site of a water well sunk in 1875 for workers on the Overland Telegraph Line.
How a ‘weird group of boronias’ pollinate has puzzled botanists for decades. Now the mystery has finally been solved.
Aussie researchers are at the vanguard of scientists worldwide solving the global environmental crisis created by plastic pollution.
Let’s extend an olive branch to Australia’s most often misunderstood reptiles and correct misconceptions about them.
It has the ring of a fairytale, but an endangered butterfly’s survival in Western Victoria isn’t the stuff of magic but rather a story of dedicated habitat restoration.
Sulphur-crested cockatoos have shown extraordinary signs of brainpower in a Sydney park, where they’ve been seen turning on water taps, and even queuing to take turns drinking.
For 30 years, researchers tracked almost 13,000 ocean giants from over 100 species to map where they travel, feed and breed.
The idea behind ‘pet years’ is to have a simple way to compare the life stages of our pets to human life spans. The standard understanding is that one pet year equals seven human years. However, the reality is much more complex. After all, most one-year-old pets can make babies – but seven-year-old humans cannot.
When a Leadbeater’s possum photobombed a camera trap inside New South Wales’ Kosciuszko National Park recently, researchers were left stunned.
The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition has opened at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, on loan from the Natural History Museum in London.