Category: The Natural World

South Georgia Island is one of the world’s most remote locations. It has a surprisingly lively history, and one remarkable current resident: the world’s only Yellow Penguin.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 this same spot for 160 years. 

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 a tree from the Cretaceous Period, living alongside the dinosaurs. It was thought to be extinct, until a surprise discovery in remote New South Wales.