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These Model Codes of Practice are intended as a guide for people responsible for the welfare and husbandry of a range of animals. The Codes are kept under review to take account of advances in the understanding of animal physiology and …

This issue, we're taking a closer look at taking a closer look! See how scientific imaging is uncovering bird evolution as it happens. Hear how researchers are turning science into music to reveal hidden patterns. Then, check out how a dentist …

Thomas Newsome , Alan Newsome

The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia's ecological identity. It is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia's arid interior. Almost nothing was …

In this issue of Double Helix magazine, we're celebrating plants! Find out where they get their food from, and discover some of the strangest and toughest plants around. Then it's time to profile your puppy’s personality, and learn …

Jenny Jacoby , Vicky Barker

Do you know your Algorithms from your Brownian motion? How about your Coprolites? Discover these words and more in this illustrated STEM encyclopedia. Organised in alphabetical order and each term beautifully …

Darryl Jones , Ann Goth

Mound-builders are unique in being the only birds that do not incubate their eggs using body heat; rather, a variety of naturally occurring sources of heat is exploited such as solar energy and the heat generated by decomposing organic matter. …

Hermes E. Escalona , Adam Slipinski

The Australian Beetles series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique evolutionary lineages found nowhere else on Earth. Volume …

Michael Pearson , Jane Lennon

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride …

Rolf G. Oberprieler , Elwood C. Zimmerman

Australian Weevils: Volume IV covers the 11 smaller tribes of the weevil subfamily Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils), which comprises more than 100 genera and 700 described species in Australia. Around half of this fauna is covered …

Lauri Kaila

Elachistine moths are the World’s most species-rich group of Lepidoptera that specialise on monocotyledon plants, especially grasses and sedges. This volume is the first reference to describe the so-far unknown diversity of these leaf-mining …

Graeme Hopkins , Christine Goodwin

Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world …

Bronwyn Saunders , Andrew Plant

Follow in the giant footsteps of Diprotodon as he finds his place in the world. Explore his Ice Age environment, his encounters with other megafauna and the challenges he faces to survive. Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey features …

Anne Morgan , Jennifer Falkner

Tardigrades are one of the toughest creatures in nature! These tiny little animals, nicknamed 'moss piglets' or 'water bears', have incredible survival superpowers. They've been found in astonishing places, from the top of a mountain …

Julie Murphy , Ben Clifford

High in the Australian Alps, Possum needs to find enough food and shelter to survive the harsh alpine winter. She will spend months hibernating under a blanket of snow. Will she last through the year to successfully raise a new family? The …

The Natural History Museum

What are dinosaurs? Where did they live? Did they fly? Did they lay eggs and did any survive? Tackle all these questions and more and become a fully fledged dinosaur expert. Here are 50 crucial questions which reveal everything …

Kate McCabe , Nicole Berlach

A tiny caterpillar begins its journey towards becoming a magnificent butterfly. The Butterfly and the Ants tells the wonderful true story of a butterfly's lifecycle. 'Blue' might seem an odd name for a small caterpillar, but …

Catherine Clowes , Rachel Gyan

Did you know that there are plants that eat insects? Plants whose seeds spread in poo? Plants that move when you touch them? And plants that grow on other plants? Plantastic! presents 26 of Australia's most unique and incredible …

Craig Cormick

Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display …

Lee K Curtis , Andrew J Dennis , Keith R McDonald , Peter M Kyne , Stephen JS Debus

Queensland is home to 70% of Australia’s native mammals (226 species), over 70% of native birds (630 species), just over half of the nation’s native reptiles (485) and native frogs (127), and more than 11 000 native plant species. Hundreds …

Andrew Claridge , John Seebeck , Randy Rose

Rat-kangaroos have not coped well with the impact of European settlement in Australia. Of the 11 species present in 1788, two are extinct, two are either mostly or totally restricted to offshore islands and the range of all other species …