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Beverley and Trevor are having Spherical Feelings tonight because someone has Touched Their Stuff and Stolen Their Water again!

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For Friday Lizard - enjoy two bobtails being unceremoniously evicted after causing strife and chaos and general disarray. www.facebook.com/share/r/16Mo...

New growth is sprouting in the fire-ravished Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, but an ecologist fears for the future.

Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll). Our cam once showed nearly empty landscape; now thousands of Mōlī (Laysan albatross) returnfor breeding season with black-footed albatross (ka’upu) in the mix. Over 1 million more albatross will soon arrive at the world’s largest albatross colony. 🎥 Watch it LIVE!

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

homegrown Australian science - particle accelerators! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

For over 300 years, the closely-guarded secrets of the Ottoman Empire's luminous tilework was lost, but its rediscovery has revived a key part of Turkey’s cultural heritage u.afp.com/SnCd

Marcel Klaassen walks us through the evolution of H5N1 bird flu, including tracking and testing of waders, with data being tracked in AviFluMap hpairisk.deakin.edu.au. Ducks are the main spreader currently. #AOC2025

📢 The CSIRO Staff Association union has called on the government to commit extra funding to the agency to reverse the job losses. 👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?

More Beautiful Friends from Tamborine Mountain in Queensland! Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog, Striped Marsh Frog, Tusked Frog and Peron’s Tree Frog!

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

It’s that Swoopy Boi time season.

tropical baby birds do the darnedest things check out these fuzzy weird little nestlings that hide their heads and sit there motionless. potentially trying to convince predators they are a nasty fungus rather than a tasty helpless baby bird v cool new paper: www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/MtT...

Did you know some of the world’s most threatened plants can’t be stored in our seed bank at –20° C? 🌱 This makes them highly vulnerable to extinction, but cryopreservation could be their lifeline. Go behind the scenes to learn how 👇 🎧 Learn more in our latest podcast episode: ow.ly/Q1Nl50XlYTF

Remember the complaints about adding back up cameras to cars? "Among children aged under five treated at a level 1 pediatric trauma centre in Texas, the trauma rate before the mandate was approximately 7.2 backovers per year, compared with 2.7 backovers per year after the mandate was implemented"

the one only truly angry bird is a wagtail

The media coverage of the EPBC reforms has largely been terrible. Two key points that many omit: 1. The _primary function_ of the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is clear in its name. Hint, it's not to fast track development or 'balance business & the environment'.

There are signs a critically endangered plant that grows on a rural property near Armidale could have a prosperous future.

Dorian Moro & Wiluna Martu Rangers. A site was identified by rangers in healthy spinifex. Ground searches found scats, active burrows & tracks. Remote cameras confirmed tjakurra, the first for Matuwa Kurrawa NP / IPA. Surveys have identified 116 active burrows. Biodiversity Conference 2025.

"Best you come out to check on your containers. Could be damp in the tub with the cracked lid"

We did a penguin GWAS! Turns out that yellow-eyed penguins (or hoiho) are actually three very divergent groups, which we are calling subspecies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @josephguhlin.bsky.social @peterkdearden.bsky.social @annasanture.bsky.social @cegrueber.bsky.social

A green sea turtle gets a grip on the Cam and tries to push off against the incoming current of the strong seas ripping offshore as Hurricane Melissa churns south of us on her march towards Jamaica. Our thoughts are with them! #seaturtle #hurricanemelissa #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

A neat artivle published in Scientific American about a study published by @lizardlab.bsky.social @biodiversityguy.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/zoo-...

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📢 Australia is the only continent that has not reported an outbreak of the highly-contagious H5N1 strain.

Welcome to the world Aevipertidus gracilis - the gracile one from a lost age. 14-19 Mya ancient #NewZealand appears to have had a bowerbird. Check out this amazing research mahi led by Elizabeth Steell (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC-BY-SA. 1/9 🧵

"Understanding why species have specific anatomical features and how they use them helps scientists understand more about their place and importance in the environment. It ultimately helps us conserve these incredible species." theconversation.com/whiskers-for... #AusMammalogy @womsat.bsky.social

wondering if @planet4589.bsky.social located a possible contender for this object, or WA police are looking up the wrong tree www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Melbourne: ever helpful

"Holistic health and wellness advocate" has opinions on raw milk sold as a bathing product. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Knock knock! Who’s there? Orange! Orange who? Orange you glad you got to hear about bats? 🍊 Learn more about these gorgeous, festive bats in our latest blog post. https://www.batcon.org/orange-is-the-new-bat/🦇

Full study is available open access here.

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests www.abc.net.au/news/science...

There’s… a lot going on in this story

Songbird heard for first time since 1890s in WA park www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Today's little (big) babby red wattlebird meeping in the tree for snacks.

🎃🦇 October vibes are here, and so is our new #blog: Going To Bat for Bats! At HPPA we call them “sky puppies”—and we’re celebrating them this month! 🦇 Read the bat blog here: www.hawaiipacificparks.org/blog/142-goi... 🌊 Explore all blogs: www.hawaiipacificparks.org/blog #HoaryBats #Fruitbats

And Beth summarises the range of methods we can use to support #urbanNature in this @aunz.theconversation.com article: 🌏 theconversation.com/from-frog-sa...

""While inoperable in the form they were gifted, a subsequent analysis by the Firearms Safety Authority and Police Armoury determined that modifications could have made them operable."" just incredible areas

Labor’s Gnangara forest plan falls flat after Woodside deems it ‘not commercially viable’ www.watoday.com.au/politics/wes...

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Often mistaken for a stink bug or Christmas beetle, this iridescent insect has descended on Geraldton with a tear gas-like odour.

There's plants which literally grow out of the side of solid banded iron formation cliffs with layers of hematite and magnetite. Vote #hematite