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Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia
The Australian coasts where explored and established during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the nineteenth century many explores trekked across the continent to find new areas to farm. Some of those explorers are listed...
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American Museum of Natural History: Kagu O Logy Card
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This one about the Australian kagu contains information about habitat, diet, and other ecological information. See if you can answer a few questions when...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A Selected History of Australia
Click on any decade from the 1900s to the present to see major news headlines in Australia for any year since 1900.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Oceans Alive: Whale Types and Migration
This site provides a description, distribution information, and distinguishing features of the southern right whales, humpback whales, and orcas.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Oceans Alive: Jewels of the Sea
This site contains information on both animals and plants of the sea. View the large sea kelps and discover the animals that feed on the kelp.
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Australian Maritime Safety Authority:experiment Demonstrating Oil Bioremediation
An experiment to investigate how bacteria causes oil to degrade over time, a process that helps the ocean slowly recover from an oil spill.
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Unique Australian Animals: Red Kangaroo
This article, illustrated with many photographs, profiles the red kangarook, Australia's largest kangaroo from nearly 60 species.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Milky Way Has an Extra Sweeping Arm
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy and the presence of an additional arm attached to the galaxy.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Galaxy Spinning the Wrong Way
From ABC News in Science, this February 2002 article revolves around findings posted by images from the Hubble Space Telescope which suggest a spiral galaxy spinning in an opposite direction than expected.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Titan Reveals Its Mysterious Surface
From ABC News in Science, Heather Catchpole's article discusses the scientific research extending, for the first time, beyond the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, and onto Titan's surface.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Saturn's Rings May Be Eroding
From ABC News in Science, Dan Whitcomb's article uses research from the Cassini spacecraft to suggest the possibility of the erosion of Saturn's rings, meaning that they will cease to exist in 100 million years.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Saturn's Rings Show Surprising Features
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses research conducted by the Cassini spacecraft in regard to Saturn's rings which some scientists suggest could lead to information regarding the "birth of the entire solar system."
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Boy Sharks Roam, Girls Stay Home
From ABC News in Science, this article examines the gender role within the shark kingdom. The research is connected to the Great White Shark and it suggests that only the male shark roams, while the females stays close to home.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Tales of Terror Spiders Still Haunt Us
From ABC News in Science, Anna Salleh's article explores the research of Dr Geoffrey Isbister and his work with facts and myths surrounding spider bites.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Hurricanes Hit Harder, More Often, but Why?
From ABC News in Science, Guy Clavel's article deals with research by French scientists which suggests that hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to intensify in severity.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Climate Change Boosting Flood and Drought
From ABC News in Science, this article deals primarily with the affect on severe weather brought about by climate change. The article also deals with the risk brought about by this severe weather.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dogs Really Do Look Like Their Owners
From ABC News in Science, Anna Salleh's article discusses the findings of a U.S. study related to dogs looking like their owners. The study also deals with the purebred vs. mongrel issue in choosing a dog.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dogs Do Have Personalities
From ABC News in Science, Jennifer Viegas's article deals specifically with the issue personality and its manifestation in dogs. The article utilizes findings from the research of Professor Samuel Gosling.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Vesuvius (World's Most Dangerous Volcano)
An article outlines the reasons why Vesuvius should be considered the world's most dangerous volcano.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Secrets of the Sun's Sizzling Corona
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article on the sun's corona covers information related to the inner workings of the sun. Several included topics are "Sound makes heat" and "Reaching the surface."
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Walking Upright Started in Trees
From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article on orangutans covers topics related to the evolutionary process of "bipedal walking," or walking on two legs instead of four.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Why Animals Have Attitude
From ABC News in Science, Marlowe Hood's article on animals with attitude covers topics related to the evolutionary process whereby certain animals within the same species can react differently in given situations based on differing...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Swimming Dinosaurs
From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article, "Swimming dinosaurs touched bottom of lake," explores fossilized foot marks found on a lake bottom which suggest strong swimming ability on the part of the dinosaurs.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Shark Has Virgin Birth
From ABC News in Science, Jennifer Viegas's article covers results from a recent study in which a female bonnethead shark was able to reproduce without the presence of a male shark.
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