Sep 16, 2024 · Around 400 million years ago, before Australia was a continent on its own, we were lying on our side, attached to Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, in a giant land mass called Gondwanaland (also …

Jan 6, 2025 · Think you know your Australian slang? You may have been barking up the wrong tree for donkey’s years. Advance Australia Fair. One of the first official tasks tackled by Prime Minister Scott Morrison was to change one word in our …

Image credit: shutterstock. The well-known call of this medium sized hawk-owl is synonymous with that of a dog’s bark— “woof woof”. The barking owl inhabits drier woodland and forest type zones, often in edge habitats nearing watercourses such as creeks.

Jan 23, 2024 · Why are sea levels rising? Global sea levels are rising for two main reasons: the oceans are getting warmer, and land-based ice sheets and glaciers are melting.. As ocean water warms, it expands. Because the ocean basins are finite (like a …

Here are some of the highlights. March and September: eclipses of the Moon. During the early morning of Monday 8 September, the full Moon will move into the shadow of Earth and be totally eclipsed.The Moon will turn a red or coppery colour, because sunlight is bent or refracted by Earth’s atmosphere onto the Moon.

Jan 16, 2024 · “When I opened the window, the rain just poured in, and I shone the spotlight around at the end of the [torch] beam. Sure enough, it was a thylacine, right in front of the car, ” Hans told The Mercury newspaper, many years later.. Hans’s camera was out of reach, so he instead focused his efforts – and channelled his many years of experience observing wildlife in Africa and Australia ...

Aug 26, 2024 · Records broken across Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology was expecting many records to be broken over the weekend across several states. On Thursday, bureau meteorologist Angus Hines described “A scorching end to winter, with widespread heat around the country in coming days, including the chance of winter records …

the short-beaked echidna will roll into a spikey ball. Image credit: shutterstock. The short-beaked echidna enjoys a diet of ants and termites, using its sharp claws and strong snout to crack into mounds, nests, and tree logs, where it then slurps up its prey with its long, sticky tongue.

Feb 15, 2023 · Despite its striking red bill and long white tail feathers (which make up half its body length), this species is difficult to spot in the rainforests and gullies where it lives, but is occasionally seen in thickly vegetated gardens.

Apr 20, 2016 · The most arid and dry parts of Australia centre around the Lake Eyre basin, which can range from an average rainfall of 100mm to 140mm per year. Lake Eyre, also known as Kati Thanda, is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world …