Singapore Botanic Garden
Singapore's Botanical Gardens is one of the world's most beautiful public gardens. Located in the heart of a tropical paradise, it is home to some of the most luxurious and exotic plant species on earth. Now it doesn't matter if you are a garden ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Shepherd's Beaked Whale
Shepherd's Beaked Whales, sometimes also called 'Tasman Whales', are known only from less than thirty stranded animals and a few unconfirmed sightings of live animals. The species was described by W. B. B. Oliver in 1937 from a nearly complete ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Arnoux's Beaked Whale
One hundred and fifty years ago a skull collected from a 9.7m whale stranded in Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand was found to represent a new species of beaked whale. It was given the name Arnoux's Beaked Whales are slate grey to ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Carrai Cave Spider
This species is important as the first web builder to be discovered within a family of basal araneomorph hunting spiders. Genus name from Latin: pro - before; gradus - step; ungula - claw = "early or oldest claw stepper", a reference to the ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
Lateral view of right tooth of an adult male Gingko-toothed Beaked Whale(Drawn from Fig. 14F Ridgeway & Harrison, 1989). This species was described by Japanese scientists, Nishiwaki and Kamiya, in 1958 from an animal stranded on a beach near ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Speciation
Speciation is the evolution of new species. It occurs when a population of interbreeding individuals is split up into separate populations. These separate populations then continue to evolve independently of each other. SPECIES - a group of ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Trapdoor Spiders
Misgolas group spiders are found in eastern Australia especially in coastal and highland regions of New South Wales and Victoria. Most trapdoor spiders but not all are misleadingly named, as not all species make a door for their burrows. These ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Native Plants
The Wittunga Botanic Gardens in Blackwood is a 14 hectare plant paradise. Filled with a huge range of species from both Australia and South Africa, now is a perfect time to visit and enjoy this spectacular plant oasis Grab a free map from the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Top Ten Gum Trees
Gum trees have had a lot of bad press: they grow too big, fall over, drop branches and have other habits gardeners will not tolerate. But these problems relate to some species, often badly planted or positioned, not to all gum trees. Some of the ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Print fact sheet - Bauhinia
There are hundreds of species of bauhinia, and they all have characteristic orchid-like flowers and 2-lobed leaves. Many of the commonly grown bauhinias come from China, where they are known as sheep's foot trees, because each leaf looks just ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Red-whiskered Bulbul
The Red-whiskered Bulbul measures 20cm - 22cm, and is not easily mistaken for any other species of bird in Australia. It has a pointed black crest, white cheeks, brown back, reddish under tail coverts and a long white-tipped tail. The red whisker ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Amaranth - The French Alternative
There are around 60 species of amaranthus, including weeds, leaf vegetables, grain crops and ornamentals. Many have large, colourful leaves and tassel-like flower spikes. Jackie French thinks amaranthus is the most spectacularly beautiful and ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
