You can tell a lot about an animal by its faeces. Red-necked wallabies take this to a whole new level, using faecal cues to avoid their enemies.

Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories revolutionised how we look at the natural world. But how did this humble gentleman naturalist see so clearly what others had missed?

On Easter Monday 1961, a tiny possum was brought back from the dead. Today, politics and natural disaster have joined forces to seal its demise once and for all.