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Ancient reef discovered on the Nullarbor Plain.
The Nullarbor Plain was once an ancient sea floor. Stretching across 200,000 square kilometres of South and Western Australia, it is the largest limestone formation in the world.
Scientists discovered an enigmatic bullseye-shaped structure using advanced 3D satellite mapping. Analysis of rocks from the area indicates it is an ancient reef that has been preserved for millions of years.
The ancient reef (the dome is in the middle of the image, with a car in the trough for scale) is hard to distinguish in the landscape.
Ring structures like the one found in the Nullarbor are common on the Great Barrier Reef.
Instead, COVID figures in Western Australia will be published once a week on Fridays.
The approach is being adopted nationally and was decided at a meeting of health ministers last week.
The mystery of a locked unoccupied hotel room at a country pub being trashed.
On a crisp Sunday morning on the NSW Northern Tablelands cleaner Robbie Lee opens the door to Room 8 at the Bendemeer Hotel. What he finds inside is a mystery. The carpet is torn up. Dirt litters the white bed sheets. The heater and fan are knocked to the floor. Publican Leanne Summers could not understand the state of Room 8 — no-one had stayed there the night before.
Monday is a new day, and Leanne decides to reopen the investigation in Room 8 and finds the bin on the ground, and the bedside table moved so she kneels and looks under the bed.
“We’re now actually thinking of calling Room 8 the Echidna Suite, in honour of our little friend.”
Desperate race underway to save Cape York’s golden-shouldered parrot from extinction.
There are believed to be fewer than 1,500 golden-shouldered parrots left in a small parcel of Cape York in far north Queensland — the only place they are found in the world.
These ‘funny little birds’ nest deep in termite mounds but mining and predators could see them vanish.
The race to save the bird, a little bigger than a budgerigar, began about seven years ago after traditional owners teamed up with conservation group Bush Heritage Australia. Several Indigenous ranger groups, as well as natural resource management bodies and property owners, are also working to save the species from extinction. Traditional owners will build a fence to help protect the area from predators.
