If you catch a protected fish – in this case a large shark – you are supposed to let it go as soon as possible.
But what if you take a photograph of it first?
Anglers do this, and so for that matter do people studying fish. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Saltworks provide unlikely rest stop for weary travellers 20/5/2016
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Courtesy Sora Estrella.
Can a large-scale industrial development benefit endangered and threatened species, such as certain migrating shore birds?
It seems Dampier Salt’s Pilbara operations are providing an important diet supplement to birds like the Red Knot, Great Knot and Bar-tailed Godwit.
Science Network [read this story]
Science Network WA has ceased publication so I have copied the story here: Continue reading
Supercontinent rift formed bizarre Bunbury rocks 29/4/2016
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I was lucky enough to interview one of the scientists who have a new take on Bunbury’s weird black rocks.
(c) WA Museum.
They were formed when India broke away from the West Australian coast 137 million years ago.
What we see in Bunbury and Capel is part of a huge lava flow almost as large as Western Australia itself that comes from Gondwana breaking up.
Most of it is now under the waters of the Indian Ocean.
As the website sciencewa.net.au is now defunct I have reproduced the story here: