The bottlenose dolphins are a curious playful lot in the waters of Port Stephens. While swimming close to the northern shore of a playground twice the size of Sydney Harbour, the crafty mammals ...

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Long cartilage spines attach to their jaw bones and support the shape of the neck frills. The echidna, also known as the spiny anteater, is a member of a family of a family of quill-covered monotremes ...

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Air pockets have been discovered in the bones of an Alvarezsauridae skeleton for the first time, indicating pneumaticity previously unseen in this dinosaur family. Found in Argentina's Allen ...