Wildlife The smelly canary in our cities …urban ibis with a wingtag, 059-yellow, part of a large-scale study into ibis movement and foraging patterns conducted with the Australian Museum, NSW National Parks, and the Royal Botanic Garden…
News There are millions more Adelie penguins in Antarctica than we thought NEW RESEARCH HAS provided the best estimate yet of how many Adélie penguins live in East Antarctica – with findings more than doubling previous estimates. A team of Australian, French…
Destinations Lord Howe Island escape …the Australian Geographic scientific expedition group who were happy for him to tag along. It was a very excited boy who returned later that day, saying how he had ticked…
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…
