Australian huntsman spiders - Australian Geographic
WEBJul 22, 2021 · Huntsman spiders are your friendly neighbourhood insect control. Spiders, including huntsmans, are ecologically important. They do us a great service by controlling the numbers of insects around our homes and gardens like cockroaches and disease-carrying mosquitoes. Huntsmans help manage insects that destroy plants in the wild.
Ned Kelly timeline - Australian Geographic
WEBSep 1, 2011 · Ned Kelly timeline of his life and death. 1854/1855 (circa): Born Edward Kelly in Beveridge, north of Melbourne. 1869: A 14-year-old Kelly assaults a Chinese pig farmer and spends close to two weeks in police custody. October 1870: Arrested again for assault. 1871: Arrested for riding a stolen horse and fighting with police.Sentenced to three …
The 10 most destructive tsunamis in history
WEBMar 16, 2011 · 10 worst tsunamis in history. 1. Sumatra, Indonesia – 26 December 2004. The 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra was estimated to occur at a depth of 30 km. The fault zone that caused the tsunami was roughly 1300 km long, vertically displacing the sea floor by several metres along that length. The ensuing tsunami was …
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 …
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 five black cockatoos - Australian Geographic
WEBMar 22, 2019 · Australia’s charismatic black cockatoos are true icons. Our five species – the Baudin’s, Carnaby’s, red-tail, yellow-tail and glossy black – hide away high in the gum trees, feeding on delicious gumnuts, cawing loudly and distinctly. All black cockatoos fall into the genus Calyptorhynchus. While there are other black-coloured ...
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 possums and gliders - Australian Geographic
WEBJul 25, 2019 · A guide to Australia’s possums and gliders. This is absolutely everything you need to know about all of Australia’s possums and gliders. In the black of night, Australia’s 27 species of possum and glider scamper across our roofs, dart along branches in secluded rainforests or peer tentatively from tiny hidey-holes.
The corals of the Great Barrier Reef: illustrated
WEBJun 30, 2017 · All illustrations by Brittney Klein. Three-quarters of the world’s 798 coral species can be found on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and they come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and colours. 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 ...
World's deadliest spider: the funnel-web - Australian Geographic
WEBFeb 13, 2017 · After a total of 13 recorded fatalities and years of research, an antivenom for the Sydney funnel web was finally developed in 1981. “And we haven’t had a fatality since,” Mick says. The Australian Reptile Park plays a vital role in the production of the antivenom, with five staff dedicated to the country’s only funnel web venom-milking ...