8-foot python found living under family’s shed — and X-rays discovered what it ate
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In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned out to be a species everyone had assumed died with the dinosaurs
Roughly 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney, at the bottom of a narrow sandstone canyon in Wollemi National Park,…
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
Since Homer’s day, the Mediterranean has been much more than a beautiful body of water, where Odysseus journeyed…
What it's like to chase solar eclipses around the world – BBC
What it’s like to chase solar eclipses around the world BBCSpanish mountain village braces for astrotourists lured by total…
Cockburn calls for volunteers to track and protect vulnerable turtles this nesting season
Cockburn’s passionate turtle protectors are gearing up for the incoming nesting season, and will be volunteering at 10…
Most U.S. coastal wetlands are slowly disappearing underwater
Salt marshes and mangroves rim the three coasts of the contiguous United States. They are losing a slow…
Underground counters lose track of who’s visiting nature
The Department of Conservation’s (DOC) systems for counting visitors and activities at 700 sites on public conservation land…
Solar eclipse to occur next week. Here is what to know : NPR
The Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse at Lake Monroe on April…
“It was extraordinary – my adrenaline was through the roof” says photographer who captured world-first drone footage of rare marine event
Drones have unlocked a completely new human perspective of the world. However, something we were yet to see…
The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
Only two complete dodo skulls are known anywhere in the world. One is housed at the Natural History…
Deen Maar Island fur seal population plummets as pollution affects pups
A remote island off Victoria’s south-west coast, Deen Maar, was once home to Australia’s largest fur seal colony.…
Uranus rotates almost completely on its side, tipped by 97.77 degrees, most likely by a giant impact billions of years ago — but its tilted moons keep the case from being closed
Uranus is usually described as the planet that was knocked over. Its spin axis is tilted by 97.77…