Most dangerous
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Australians have a curious affection for their country’s dangerous animals, taking great national pride in the notion that ‘everything is far more dangerous here’. But is this reputation deserved? The notoriety of the deadly creatures to be found ‘Down Under’ has been somewhat distorted overseas, with the majority […]
Different Phylla
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Invertebrates
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Amphibians
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Reptiles
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Reptiles The Australian continent and surrounding islands have become renowned as a reptile hotspot. Why has this come to be? One clue to this plethora of reptiles lies in the multitude of islands strewn across the many archipelagos. From the tip of the Malay Peninsula, to beyond New […]
Birds
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Birds Australia has some of the most diverse assemblages of birds and some of the largest birds in the world. Largest Bird Wild populations of Ostrich still persist in Australia, especially north of Port Augusta in South Australia where they have lived with steadily reduced numbers for decades. There […]
Mammals
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Mammals Australia is the only continent home to the three extant groups of mammals – the monotremes (or egg laying mammals), marsupials (the pouched mammals) and placentals (what most people think of as normal mammals). Even though both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea also share these three groups it […]
Ancient Megafauna
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Other plants
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Other Plants Tallest Tree Fern The tallest Tree ferns in the world belong to two Australian Tree Ferns. The rough tree fern (Cyathea Australis) and the Norfolk Island Tree Fern (Sphaeropteris excelsa). The rough tree fern usually only attains a maximum height of 12 metres in most areas but […]
Trees
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Largest Trees The Black Friday bushfires of February 13, 1939, will go down in history for many reasons. In human terms, the loss of numerous lives and infrastructure was devastating, but also the fires decimated the ecology of south-eastern Australian forests. The burden of the devastation wrought by the […]