Wildlife Rare photos of blacktip reef sharks 'beaching' …Reef, 270km north of Cairns. The Lizard Island Research Station is a world-leading coral reef research facility located on the island and operated by the Australian Museum. More of Christian’s…
Wildlife Sir Charles Kingsford Smith remembered …day: Aviation’s golden-boy disappears”). “The search for ‘Smithy’ was the greatest land-sea search of all-time at that point,” says historian Peter FitzSimons, who wrote a 2010 book on Kingsford Smith’s…
Wildlife VIDEO: Catching whale 'blows' …assessment stage, before taking ‘blow’ and tissue samples. (Video courtesy Fletcher Mingramm / UQ) There she blows A day in the field for the scientists involves launching their research vessel…
News Scientists discover 91 volcanoes in Antarctica …speed up the flow of ice into the sea,” which would then result in sea-level rises. The research – a part of the Edinburgh volcano survey, published in the Geological…
Science & Environment Scalloped hammerheads gather in seas off Perth With the help of drones, we now know a bit more. In our new research, we describe finding a location in a marine park off the coast of Perth where…
Science & Environment Supercomputer pinpoints a meteorite’s origin A fine example of their capabilities comes from recent research on the origin of a unique meteorite found in Western Sahara in 2011. Nicknamed ‘Black Beauty’, the meteorite is one…
AG Blog 2008 AG Society awards wrap …years of underwater conservation work, including their groundbreaking research into shark behaviour. “Although adventurers draw more attention, we regard our support of research as one of the Society’s most important…
Science & Environment Daily life of Neanderthals revealed from gunk in their teeth …albeit with limited evidence. But new research, published today in Nature, provides some of the first nuanced, detailed insights into the everyday lives of Neanderthal. By sequencing the ancient DNA…
Fundraising Donate for Dugongs …land into the oceans, which may be affecting dugong health. Make a Difference The University of Queensland dugong research team, led by Dr Janet Lanyon, are the premier dugong research…
Adventure Adventure in the Alps of Australia …ocked to the mountains in search of fortunes. The highlands were used as summer grazing lands for cattle and sheep from the 1830s onwards, goldmining towns were established in the…
