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…
AG Society News Society Spotlight: Russell Osborne …had decades of regurgitating the same material, towards setting up the infrastructure for systematic removal of the camel from the arid zone to be tagged and pastoralised and finally processed…
Creatura Blog Cuvier's beaked whale the deepest diving animal …into the depths of the ocean in search of food. They’re very broadly distributed, found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world, including off the coast of southern…
Wildlife Gallery: The secret life of green turtles Marine scientist and photographer Justin Gilligan reports on a project tagging turtles in New South Wales for the first time….
Wildlife Cheeky whale shark gets a free feed …tag and track the gentle giants in Cendrawasih Bay National Marine Park in Indonesia. Here the whale sharks have learned to hang out at ‘bagan’ fishing platforms, which use lanterns…
Wildlife Dining with the Tasmanian devil …of my search was to be expected, she says. In 12 years of study she has only ever seen half a dozen wild devils. Fortunately, the beasts are predictably easy…
Wildlife New footage of the night parrot …they had caught, tagged and filmed a night parrot at the secret south-western Queensland site where a small population of parrots had previously been discovered by ornithologist John Young. Also…
News Derek the baby wombat melts hearts …multiple feeds per day around her work at the local general store means Kate has Derek tag along for the 9-5, and over the years her wombat joeys have become…
