Poor Moko is no more . He was a bottle-nosed dolphin who liked humans more than other dolphins, as sometimes happens, and had delighted peop...

I don't begin to understand this photo. Apparently it's the universe, courtesy of the Planck Telescope: the white streak is the Milk...

There's a stunning photo in the Herald today with a story about a 5m croc in Kakadu chomping into the 3m bull shark it caught in the mi...

Traditionally, the Australian spirit is that 'Jack's as good as his master' so Qantas has it right: on the national airline, ser...

I seem to have been keeping a close check on the sun's movements lately, there at the coming up and the going down most days. Last night...

Back in Alice Springs now after a couple of nights in the bush, one in a very comfortable tented cabin complete with heat pump (these deser...

Up at ungodly o'clock for the red-eye to Sydney (glorious from the air - blue harbour, white city, really like actual - literary - Oz, e...