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Tasmanian Tiger - Australia's Culture PortalBut perhaps our most mysterious animal is the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, which is considered to have become extinct in 1936. The now-extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Although commonly called the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, the thylacine has more in co...
Image courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Fiona Hall, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005. Fiona Hall, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2005....
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
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Extinct reptile species lived on in Australia › News in Science (ABC Science) (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )"We thought dicynodonts lived for 60 million years but really they lived for nearly three times that long," Thulborn told ABC Science Online. Use these social-bookmarking links to share Extinct reptile species lived on in Australia. Use this form to email...
Friday, 28 September 2007Ancient Australian rock is telling scientists that there was oxygen in earth's atmosphere millions of years earlier than anyone realised. Friday, 21 September 2007The vicious little dinosaur velociraptor was a feathered fiend, acc...
Tuesday 02: Watch the soccer World Cup ... Monday 25: Erasing bad memories? Tuesday 05: Anger trigger to heart disease found?...
2. John Gould (1804 1881) Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the adjacent islands, 1837 1838 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland RBQ 598.2994 GOU This Synopsis was published by Gould in four parts (January and April 1837, January and Apri...
Some archaeologists argue that physical remnants such as this chert knife found in Djadjiling in WA give a more accurate view of life in ancient Australia than re-interpreting post-European contact history. ANU archaeologist Dr Peter Hiscock and author o...
Wednesday, 8 November 2006News Analysis Australian scientists will not be allowed to use animal eggs to create embryonic stem cells under a bill passed by the Senate this week. Wednesday, 25 October 2006Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Professor...
Climate change is leading to a warmer home for this Thornton Peak nursery frog. With climate change increasing temperatures in Far North Queensland, this frog is literally running out of mountain in its search for cooler climes. Climate is always changin...
2666 Paperback , 197 x 130mm. Accidental Light, An Paperback , 197 x 130mm. American Wife Paperback , 198 x 127mm. ...
Friday 03: Could Hobbit humans be tried for murder? Tuesday 28: Passenger service to space in three years? Monday 09: Feeling the heat in Athens? ...
The Emergent Church is promoted by Brian McLaren whom Time magazine identified as one of America's top 25 Evangelicals. Rachael Kohn: Do you think the church has veered away from the mission Jesus set himself? Then Brian McLaren's emergent church may be...
Friday 03: Could Hobbit humans be tried for murder? Tuesday 28: Passenger service to space in three years? Monday 09: Feeling the heat in Athens? ...
In Patricia Piccinini’s Surrogate (for the northern hairy nosed wombat) a placid creature harbors six wombats in varying stages of development in pouches that run along its armoured back. Surrogate (for the northern hairy nosed wombat) continues Pi...
CLIMATE CHANGE IN AUSTRALIA| regional impacts and adaptation | managing the risk for australia ii © Commonwealth of Australia 2007 PMSEIC Independent Working Group 2007, Climate Change in Australia: Regional Impacts and Adaptation Managing the Risk for A...
Silence in the political sense: not speaking out, shutting up, accepting what the government does; or maybe in the Cagean sense: there is no such thing as silence. Three separate installations, one each week, presented by members of the undue noise colle...
Climate change is leading to a warmer home for this Thornton Peak nursery frog. With climate change increasing temperatures in Far North Queensland, this frog is literally running out of mountain in its search for cooler climes. Climate is always changin...
10.20 Morning tea 10.40 David Green (Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU): The role of science in societies, including ethics in science and ethical responsibility of scientists. Chair: David Green 13.00 James Haire (President, National Council of Ch...
Paul Davies, 1998 FROM STARS TO BRAINS PATHWAYS TO CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE NATURAL WORLD PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS EDITED BY ANDREW Y. GLIKSON MANNING CLARK HOUSE 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest ACT 2603, PO Box 3096, Manuka ACT 2603 Tel 02 6295 9433 Fax 02 6295 60...
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