Orphaned helmeted honeyeater chicks will be given a lifeline at Zoos Victoria’s new Helmeted Honeyeater Hand-raising and Incubation Facility at Healesville Sanctuary. Victoria’s rare emblematic bird ...

A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be.

An 80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering. Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold ...

Iridescence, an extraordinary optical phenomenon more commonly associated with birds, butterflies and beetles, has been found – for the first time – in an Australian frog species. The green and golden ...

A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be.

Ever seen a cave cricket? Australia now has three new species of these spindly, spider‑like creatures. When you picture a cave, you probably think of an environment devoid of life. But for most caves ...

You can hear the distinctive Aussie twang on almost any street in London, but finding a place to connect with our landscape in the heart of the English capital is usually far more challenging. That ...

Researchers are working with the world’s first ‘frog hospital’ to identify the cause of tumours in white-lipped and green tree frogs in Far North Queensland. In the lush rainforests of Far North ...

You can’t see them. You can’t feel them. You can’t touch them. But our universe is awash with millions of magnetic fields. An international team, led by Australian researchers at CSIRO and the SKA ...

Brought to you by Norfolk Island. Mid-year has a habit of arriving before you’re ready for it. The calendar fills and the pace quickens, and somewhere between the meetings and the to-do lists, you ...

This article is brought to you by Victor Harbor. There’s a stretch of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula where windswept beaches meet ancient bush trails, and the mighty Southern Ocean delivers ...

People used to say a holiday to Lord Howe Island begins on the plane. This was back in the days when people travelled to this small remote island, about 780km north-east of Sydney in the middle of the ...