News Public asked to name rare albino orangutan …14 May and can be emailed to [email protected] or on social media using the hashtag #albinoorangutan. The chosen name will be announced on Monday, 15 May. The BOS Foundation currently…
News Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles are real homebodies, study finds …he said. “Wedge-tailed eagles on mainland Australia travel very large distances. Five juvenile eagles satellite-tagged in WA last year moved between 250-810km during their first three weeks of dispersal. One…
News NASA spacecraft will pass through Australian skies this weekend …picture of themselves waving to the spacecraft alongside the hastag #HelloOSIRISREx. The spacecraft— launched in September last year, intends to take samples from the 492m-diameter asteroid, Bennu which astronomers say…
News New signs that bleached corals are making a recovery emerge …regained their colour and the growth of some colonies was so good they had overgrown our original research tags,” Line said. However, Neal Cantin, another AIMS coral biologist, said that…
News These are the huge stink bugs terrorising Sydney’s inner-city suburbs …head of Search and Discover at the Australian Museum, David Bock has since identified the insect to be a Lychee stink bug (Tessaratoma papillosa). According to David, these kinds of…
Wildlife Will the new mozzie emoji help battle mosquito-borne disease? Scientists think so …than deserving of an emoji. But will it make a difference to the way the science behind mosquito research is communicated? Could it influence how the community engages with public…
Wildlife Photographing WA’s colourful insects …“Looking at insects and spiders closely makes people forget their prejudices and look at them through a new perspective.” READ MORE: Beetle baubles: Australia’s stag beetles Jewel beetles: flying gems…
On This Day On this day: The birth of Vegemite …An attempt to boost sales by changing the name to Parwill (accompanied by the tagline, ‘If Marmite… then Parwill!’) fell flat, and the name reverted back to Vegemite. Then, ten…
AG Blog Another iceberg in Sydney Harbour? …tag, although Geoff says savings could amount to $250 per annum. Today in Sydney, the iceberg, complete with mermaids and up-beat music, was made from photographic canvases of ice, and…
Adventure Chamlang traverse 2010 …6, 2010 Tagnag (4300m) Now in upper Hinku Valley and soon to go over 5400m Mera La into Hongu Valley to establish Chamlang base camp. Arrival of base camp porters…
