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.
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 as …
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 ...
Everything you need to know about snakes - Australian Geographic
WEBFeb 22, 2016 · Snakes have no eyelids. Snakes can eat animals who are 75–100 per cent larger than their own head. Before shedding, a snake’s eyes will become cloudy/opaque. Endemic to Western Australia’s Pilbara region, the Anthill python (Antaresia perthensis) is the smallest python species in the world.
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.
What really happened on Whakaari/White Island?
WEBSep 8, 2020 · The eruption began at 9.35pm with big heaves inside the crater. By 10.03pm it was pelting the nearby walking track with projectiles, but withheld its final energy until 10.11pm, when with a whoomph it sent a plume sky-high. A scalding current of steam and debris, coloured green by hydrothermally altered rock, rolled right across the track at 11m/s, and down to the south-eastern bays.
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.
A guide to Australia’s penguins - Australian Geographic
WEBApr 26, 2018 · A little penguin (Eudyptula minor).Image credit: shutterstock Only a tad bigger than a bowling pin, little penguins (sometimes called fairy penguins) are the smallest penguin species in the world. These petite paddlers make their homes along the coast of southern Australia, with colonies located on Montague Island and Sydney’s Manly Beach in NSW, the St Kilda breakwater in Melbourne ...
Tawny frogmouths: 5 things you may not know about these …
WEBMay 16, 2018 · Master nests builders, tawny frogmouths are not. The male tawny will often pick up a few sticks and some leaves and dump them into place; no arrangement and nothing to secure anything in place. Gisela says that, with the exception of pigeons, these frogmouths are the least accomplished of Australia’s nest-building birds.
Australia's most dangerous animals - Australian Geographic
WEBMar 28, 2013 · Australia is infamous for its dangerous animals. With more deadly snakes than any other country worldwide, it isn’t surprising. Though sharks, spiders, and snakes get the majority of bad press, it is actually an awesome array of predators and venomous critters that have earned Australia its fearsome reputation.
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