It's not a sound commonly associated with birds. But a colony of flesh-footed shearwaters 'crack and crunch' because they've ...

Hundreds of Australia’s unique species are clinging to life in small patches of habitat. Now researchers have found half of ...

With NOAA confirming late last month that more than 83% of the planet's reefs have been hit by extreme ocean heat since January 2023, scientists are finding that even the most resilient of Australia's ...

Subtropical Lord Howe Island lies 480 miles northeast ... This jumbo insect was once so common it was used as fish bait by the island’s residents. How it went from ubiquitous abundance to ...

Paradise found. Fish life abounds at Ned’s Beach, Lord Howe Island. For many travellers to Lord Howe Island, the accommodation of choice over recent years has been Capella Lodge, the luxurious ...

LAKE GEORGE – Renowned French and Indian War historian George A. Bray III will present “Lord Howe: ‘The Soul of General Abercromby’s Army,’” a talk on the life, death, and perhaps ...

We now know that they fed on a range of invertebrates, but the most common prey was small ... the first being to Lord Howe Island – which continues to this day. Reference: “The paleobiology of a new ...

18 th March 2025, Sydney: In an Australian first, a team of scientists led by Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney palaeontologist, Dr Matthew McCurry, have described a new species of 15-million-year-old ...

Dr McCurry, the lead author of the paper, said that before this fossil discovery scientists lacked concrete evidence to pinpoint when this group of fish arrived ... being to Lord Howe Island ...

As a boy, Edward Howe Forbush, Jr., the ornithologist ... a seagull after that piece of testimony? The common tern: “It never eats marketable fish.” The blue jay: “Jays bury nuts and ...

They inevitably go for structure, too, and bust-offs are common ... behemoths up to 6kg in Lord Howe’s famed lagoon, which is comparatively shallow and easily fished from a boat, jetty or shore. We ...