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Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef while pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Christian Fletcher, staged an uprising against their captain Lieutenant William Bligh in 1789, forcing Bligh and his supporters out to sea in a launch.

The grandson of an Aussie digger who souvenired a compass from a World War I German tank has donated it to Queensland Museum where the rare tank is on display.

Researchers have solved a 40-year mystery by identifying 15 species of land snail, naming one after a high-profile Australian zookeeper.

John Stanisic has one life mission — to get everyone to love snails and slugs.

Palaeontologist Scott Hocknull likened his research to a crime scene, minus the criminals and eyewitnesses. Now, he's using technology to better understand the fossils found in Australia.

An investigation found one woman, who was a taxidermist, acquired a chronic case of Q Fever while at work and suffered a serious spinal abscess.

The Brigalow Belt in Central Queensland is the only place to find the uncommon and enormous species of trapdoor spider.

The so-called trapdoor spiders are found only in Queensland and build “trap doors” out of leaves to prey on insects