May Bradford remembered as first woman to hold dual commercial pilot, engineering licences
Amelia Earhart and Nancy Bird Walton were famous for their pioneering feats in the aviation industry. But Queensland-raised ...
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Move over Moo Deng: Pesto the Australian penguin is molting his famous fluffy feathers
Pesto, the avian answer to the viral hippo Moo Deng, has started to molt. The chick, who lives at Australia’s SEA Life ...
Monash University scientists, Aboriginal rangers discover lizard species in Central Australian desert
Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover new a skink, Liopholis aputja, in the Central ...
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See New Images of Pesto, Australia’s Enormous Baby Penguin, in His ‘Awkward Phase,’ Molting His Downy Feathers
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to lose his youthful down, a process that will give ...
There are 10,000 reasons to smile in Australia’s criminally overlooked wild west
ROTTNEST ISLAND, Australia — I decided I wouldn’t be like my fellow ... who hop around with smirks on their faces and joeys ...
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Meet The Great Potoo: South America’s Loud But Elusive Ghost Bird
Great potoos have a very large range and are found across South America including in Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and even ...
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The 20 Best Things to Do in Sydney (That You've Probably Never Heard of)
One of Hollywood's most famous attractions is the Walk of Fame — a series of ... Even some make-believe characters, such as ...
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Australian fashion dominates stars at Melbourne Cup birdcage
Model Renee Fay Lamb also caused a commotion by wearing an emerald green dress from another famous Australian label ...
Arnhem Land performer Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala named NT Australian of the Year
Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala, who has led Numbulwar's famous Red Flag Dancers for decades, says he hopes the award will ...
Could a monkey write Shakespeare before the universe dies? New research questions old theorem
The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey could in theory ...
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Pesto, Australia’s Enormous, Beloved Baby Penguin, Is Growing Up and Losing His Downy Feathers
Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium They grow up so fast: Pesto, the viral juvenile king penguin at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, is starting to lose his baby feathers. The beloved bird—who became ...
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The dodo was not fat and clumsy: Study debunks the image we have of the most famous extinct bird
The flightless bird’s popularity was further amplified by Disney almost a century later. It’s said that Carroll incorporated the bird as a caricature of himself, since a stutter caused him to ...