Meet the real Ned Kelly
We Aussies love our bad-boy antiheroes, and the armour-clad bearded bushranger Ned Kelly is the most notorious of them…
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Northern exposure: The story of the polar bear and a remote frontier town
In the far north of Manitoba, in the middle of an incredible subarctic landscape, a small community coexists with the…
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Birds use hidden black and white feathers to make their colours pop
New research has revealed a surprising trick in which birds use those boring black and white feathers to make their…
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Paddleboarding pups sniff out elusive platypus
These dogs have learned new tricks to help researchers search for platypuses in hard-to-reach places. The post…
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Hoarding, sexual cannibalism, and messy webs: Redback spiders live a life of organised chaos
Spiders get a lot of credit for being neat. With their perfect little webs, strung delicately, repaired fastidiously,…
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Taking back the power
A scheme bringing solar electricity to remote communities promises to improve the lives of some of Australia’s most…
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Rakali vs. black rat: Australian native rodent fights back
Footage has provided Sydney researchers with the first evidence of a native rakali attacking a black rat – an introduced…
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Paddle Pulse: Kayaking from a floating basecamp
Using a ship as your base opens up a whole new way to explore the world when kayaking – offering comfort, flexibility…
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