The corals of the Great Barrier Reef: illustrated
WEBJun 30, 2017 · There are more than 600 coral species in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which covers 344,400sq.km of ocean. Corals are colonies of tiny polyps, which are animals related to sea anemones and jellyfish.A reef begins when a polyp attaches to a rock on the seabed and divides into clones. These connect, creating a colony that functions as a single organism.
Southern cassowary - Australian Geographic
WEBeggs or offspring. If you come across a cassowary in a rainforest, remain calm and quiet and slowly back away. As the largest native animal in Australian rainforests – and with long glossy black feathers arranged like a cape, a mostly blue face, fleshy red wattles hanging from its neck, and a 17cm tall helmet-like crest on its head – it’s impossible to confuse a cassowary with any other ...
Top 10 most dangerous Australian spiders - Australian Geographic
WEBAug 16, 2012 · Australia’s 10 most dangerous spiders. 1. Sydney funnel-web (Atrax robustus) A Sydney funnel-web spider. Image credit: Shutterstock. With highly toxic venom produced in large amounts and large fangs to inject it, the Sydney funnel-web is without a doubt the deadliest spider in Australia, and possibly the world.
Beware the impossibly beautiful blue viper - Australian Geographic
WEBSep 24, 2017 · Bec Crew is a Sydney-based science communicator with a love for weird and wonderful animals. From strange behaviours and special adaptations to newly discovered species and the researchers who find them, her topics celebrate how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live amongst us can be. A blue white-lipped put viper (Trimeresurus ...
Aboriginal inventions: 10 enduring innovations
WEBMar 12, 2015 · Aboriginal stone tools were highly sophisticated in their range and uses. Stone and natural glass were fashioned into chisels, saws, knifes, axes and spearheads. Stone tools were used for hunting, carrying food, for making ochre, nets, clothing, baskets and more. Aboriginal people are thought to be one of the first to use stone tools to grind ...
A Guide to Aboriginal Astronomy - Australian Geographic
WEBAstronomy was used by indigenous Australians to develop calendars and navigate the land. Each hunter-gatherer tribe lived according to an annual cycle, which informed what they ate and hunted and where they travelled. “The timing of the moves was critical, otherwise animals would eat the crop before the humans arrived and so most Aboriginal ...
A guide to Australia’s fairy-wrens - Australian Geographic
WEBMar 27, 2019 · The lovely fairy-wren looks very similar to a superb fairy-wren, but it has a very short tail in comparison. It is one of four chestnut-winged fairy-wrens, which includes the variegated, blue-breasted and red-winged fairy-wren. It’s endemic to north-eastern Queensland and is recognised as the most arboreal (living in trees) species of fairy ...
Australia's most dangerous animals - Australian Geographic
WEBMar 28, 2013 · Tracking down the world’s most venomous snake, the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), took the crew to a remote desert in south-western Queensland. “The inland taipan is unbelievably elusive,” he says. The remote location is one reason there have been no recorded deaths by this species, even though one bite contains enough venom to kill several humans.
Tsunamis: how they form - Australian Geographic
WEBMar 18, 2011 · Tsunamis: How they form. Underwater volcanoes erupting, icebergs calving and in rare instances meteorites hitting the ocean have all produced the giant waves in the past. But very large underwater earthquakes are responsible for about three-quarters of all tsunamis. “Broadly speaking earthquakes have to be a magnitude six or above to trigger ...
Lorikeets: Four things you didn’t know about them - Australian …
WEBAug 12, 2019 · When the wet season approaches in Darwin and the mercury starts to climb, lorikeets get on the drink. Red-collared lorikeets, native to the northern parts of Australia, exhibit tell-tale signs of drunkenness, such as difficulty flying, running into things and becoming friendlier towards humans. Basically, they lose their inhibitions.
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