Tag: Tasmania

One of our favorite trips for my wife and I when we were living Down Under in Australia was the 10 days we spent on a camping trip

Here is a nice article about a effort on Tasmania to conserve the wild Tasmanian Devil population that continues to be ravaged by the facial tumor disease: ‘Skinny

This is just to darn funny and something that could only happen in Australia: The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia’s southern island state of

If you are an American and don’t know who Alferd Packer is or just have a vague memory of hearing this name before than you then have about

Slate’s Christopher Beam answers a readers question on if Tasmanian Devils are as aggressive as the Looney Tunes character: A rapidly spreading, deadly facial tumor virus has killed

The Cannibal Run

Representing sweet success for a recent expedition off Tasmania, this 1.6-foot-wide (50-centimeter-wide), 6.5-foot-tall (200-centimeter-tall), “waffle cone” sponge is one of many new species found with a remotely operated

Sad news from Tasmania in regards to the recent beaching of 43 whales there: A pod of about 50 whales, mostly mothers and calves, beached themselves on Perkins

For whatever reason beaching of whales on Tasmania continues to be a problem: RESCUERS are battling the odds to save five sperm whales that survived a mass stranding

Finds of strange sea life continued to be discovered in the waters around Australia: An oddity among oddities, this newly discovered carnivorous sea squirt traps fish and other