When our Chief Sub-Editor Adam Scroggy isn’t at his desk preparing the Australian Geographic magazine for print, we send him ...

Tannins are astringent and bitter-tasting chemicals found in many leaves; they’re what add flavour to red wines, chocolate ...

Many of our native mice and rats are quietly creeping towards extinction, but a pookila breeding project in metropolitan ...

Living like mammals in a land without them, Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless birds are an evolutionary enigma.

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

New Australian research shows bumblebees can learn and recognise rhythmic patterns across different tempos and even across ...

The Tully saucer nest heralded the start of the worldwide phenomenon of the modern crop circle. On a foggy morning in January 1966, George Pedley, a banana farmer from Euramo, near Tully in far north ...

Australia’s once-successful biocontrol agents for rabbits are losing their edge. As destructive populations of feral bunnies ...

Australians have a love affair with waterfalls. Perhaps it’s because we live on the driest inhabited continent on the planet.

Alice Springs has achieved almost mythical fame as a popular subject in poems, songs and novels, the most famous being Nevil ...

In 1964, Australian armed forces fought in Borneo and on the Malay Peninsula in the Indonesian Confrontation, or ‘Konfrontasi ...