News Mammals may have slept through dinosaur extinction THE DISCOVERY OF A tropical mammal that can hibernate for nine months straight sheds light on how early mammals may have survived the cataclysm that killed off dinosaurs, new research…
News Citizen scientists help shark conservation …By using non-invasive methods to collect data, SharkBase aims to minimise potentially harmful data collection methods, such as tagging. Sharks are important keystone species in ocean ecosystems. Despite this, an…
Sponsorship Tracking Tasmanian platypuses A METHOD OF remote monitoring that uses microchips similar to those that tag domestic cats and dogs is now tracking the elusive platypus. Dr James Macgregor, of Perth’s Murdoch University,…
Destinations Nepal's Annapurna-dhaulagiri circuit …of Old Yellow (pronounced Ole Yeller) who has decided to tag along with our crew, disappearing from time to time but always swinging by each evening, unsurprisingly around mealtime. Life…
Destinations Triple treat at Queen Charlotte Track …my next overnight stop – Lochmara Lodge – on my luggage tags, handed them over to the water taxi crew, then jumped onboard. My bags would be waiting for me…
Science & Environment Great white sharks prefer rock music …at the University of California, that’s not as ridiculous as it seems; he’s used lab-produced sounds to locate sharks for tagging and tracking. Sharks ‘hear’ sounds from objects much further…
News The planets are about to align …Duffy, research fellow at Swinburne University in Melbourne, said that this reasonably rare alignment is “essentially a quirk” of the universe. All the planets sit on a flat plane but…
Adventure A very long pathway …recall something from the guidebook about it being “not quite mountaineering” but I commit to tackling it one step at a time. Searching out the orange marker poles bent over…
News Dugong rescue operation in NSW …Moreton bay. Sea World has been working with the University of Queensland in monitoring the population of dugongs in Moreton bay, and they plan to place a satellite tag on…
Adventure Annapurna adventure in Nepal …has decided to tag along with our crew, disappearing from time to time but always swinging by each evening, unsurprisingly around mealtime. Life is a simple routine without the distractions…
