Oct 10, 2017 · The much-photographed red-eyed tree frog lives in the rainforest canopy, coming down to breed after rain. It has been known to launch itself from a high branch after insects and land safely many meters below. Extensive webbing on its feet and its adoption of a glider-like posture in midair suggest the species may be developing the ability to control such descents.

As the group ascended the nearest tall-standing structure, they congregated at its summit and turned to face the sky as it darkened. Mothers clutched their young, fathers sat still and gazed in wonderment and an orphan infant, standing tall, gestured upward as the Sun and Moon eclipsed far above the cold woodland surroundings of the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre.

Apr 16, 2018 · The box’s lethality resides in its ability to deliver a significant amount of venom via hundreds of thousands of injections at once. The Irukandji has four tentacles, one on each corner, whereas the box has up to 15 tentacles coming from each corner.

A greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata).Image credit: shutterstock. These tiny cephalopods are grey to beige or even yellow in colour when resting, and have large light brown patches, helping them to camouflage beautifully into their rocky surrounds.

In Australia, the cuckoo wasp comes in a variety of bright metallic blues and greens. Classed as a parasitoid, like many wasps, it lays eggs in the nests of mud-dauber wasps. The cuckoo wasp’s eggs hatch first and the larvae then eat all the stored food in the chamber.

speeds of up to 50km per hour. Image credit: shutterstock. Hunted for food, celebrated in culture, and represented in traditional artworks and dance by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years, there is no specific, standard Indigenous word for emu, since there is …

Wolf spider (family Lycosidae). Image credit: shutterstock Wolf spiders are typically dark and mottled in colour. Image credits: shutterstock. Wolf spiders are an adaptive arachnid and are found right across Australia, within a vast number of habitats including open woodlands, grasslands, wet coastal forests, alpine meadows, and inlands scrublands.

Jun 20, 2017 · Male leafcutter bees often have highly modified forelegs that are by and large designed for use during mating. Males will often rob their forelegs over the eyes of the female while mating; this is possibly used for species recognition.

Image credit: shutterstock. The well-known call of this medium sized hawk-owl is synonymous with that of a dog’s bark— “woof woof”. The barking owl inhabits drier woodland and forest type zones, often in edge habitats nearing watercourses such as creeks.

The drop bear is a native Australian marsupial related to the koala that is ferocious, savage, cunning and…. entirely fabricated. The urban legend surrounding this predatory creature centres on the idea that this territorial animal ‘drops’ from the treetops on unsuspecting bush walkers and tourists.Interestingly, the drop bear is so elusive that no one has ever captured or photographed ...