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Aesop's Animals
What is the science behind the famous fables like the tortoise and the hare?
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Wearing the skins of your enemies
Sometimes it’s not enough to liquify your enemies and drink them through a straw. Sometimes you have to wear their skins as you hunt down their friends and families.
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Salty extremophiles
This place is so extreme that NASA sends scientists to test equipment for Mars missions. And yet, Australia's salty lakes are full of life.
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Snakes and Ladders
How does a snake climb a pole? It's not like they have a ladder... or arms.
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The kookaburra that conquered Hollywood
Yes, that was a kookaburra at the start of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But WHY?
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Tits, boobies and hooters
Why is it that bird names seem so… childishly misogynistic?
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Are you really better than a bum-licking ant?
Humans totally were the first farmers, right?! Think again.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Eat sh*t and prosper
Evolution has resulted in a million ways that animals succeed on this earth, we just didn’t realise so many of them involved eating your own poo.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Duck the Ripper
Ripper the musk duck had many bad habits – chief among them was attacking the keepers and then swearing under his breath. But was Ripper really angry, or was his swearing a symptom of something much …
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
INTRODUCING — What The Duck?!
Australia is full of weird plants and animals. And Dr Ann Jones is on speaking terms with most of them! Each week Ann explores the most unusual elements of our natural world — the ones that make you …
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago