65 million years ago, the earth had a very bad day. This was the end of the age of the dinosaurs. The key to what happened to them was Irridium, a rare substance from deep space.
Hunted as pests, kept as pets, known in popular culture as shrewd and clever, known in South America as ‘Zorro’; there are a million fox stories. Here are a few.
Ambien is the world’s most popular sleeping tablet. Side effects include; sleep driving, night terrors and sexting. THE NATURAL WORLD Your body’s sleep cycle is
50 years ago, an archaeological discovery in remote NSW turned the history of human evolution on its head. THE NATURAL WORLD Jim Bowler was the
The Yarra River is an intrinsic part of Melbourne; but did you know its current course is a man-made construct, very different to how it
Every April 22nd, for as long as that date has existed, the night skies in both hemispheres are lit up with a streaky sequence of
Stretched along the St Kilda foreshore, south west of the city, is something unlikely; a to-scale model of our entire Solar System. St Kilda is
Standing on the corner of King and Bourke St in Melbourne is a living piece of history; the city’s only Honey Locust tree, growing on
On September 28, 1969, a fiery meteorite blazed a trail from space, and crashed into regional Victoria. The debris contained an extraordinary surprise; the first
The Wollemi Pine was alive in the Cretaceous Period, living alongside the dinosaurs. It was thought to be extinct, until a surprise discovery in remote