Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and ...

Coolgardie is a pioneering mining town that thrives in a historic shire known for one of Australia’s biggest gold rushes.

Many Australians discovered the country’s extraordinary birds during COVID. They’d always been there, but it seems we were ...

Using tools borrowed from human medical research, we found that male dolphins with stronger social bonds appear biologically younger than their less social counterparts. This means their bodies show ...

But for David, Australia’s almost 100 species of native mistletoe are worth celebrating all year round. “We’ve got representations of lineages [of mistletoe] that date right back to Gondwana days. So, ...

IT’S A SCENE THAT IS SO AUSTRALIAN. Deep in the bush amid towering eucalypts, the only noise is the screech of cockatoos and a ground-dweller rustling in the undergrowth. Large kangaroos appear ...

The red-bellied black is one of the Australia’s most commonly encountered snakes. If you live in one of the eastern mainland states and like bushwalking or even just live near urban bushland, chances ...

Nope, the hieroglyphs seen engraved on rocks within Brisbane Water National Park were not the handiwork of Egyptian travellers who sailed to Australia some 5000 years ago. If someone asked where you’d ...

You don’t need me to tell you Australia boasts a coastline of beautiful beaches … more than 10,000 of them, in fact. While some stretches of sand such as Surfers Paradise and Bondi are iconic, many ...

I’m tracking the Dog Fence from above in the front passenger seat of a Cessna 206. We took off in the tiny plane a couple of hours ago from the sandy airstrip that services the Wilpena Pound Resort ...

This is absolutely everything you need to know about all of Australia’s possums and gliders. In the black of night, Australia’s 27 species of possum and glider scamper across our roofs, dart along ...

Once thought extinct, the night parrot is one of Australia’s most elusive birds, blending science and Indigenous knowledge in a fragile conservation story.