The internet thinks that Quokkas are the happiest animals in the world, but what's the real life of a quokka like?

Seabirds rely on their nostrils to guide them across the world’s oceans for years at a time.

An ocean that is starved of iron is like a garden without fertiliser: there will be no photosynthesis and no phytoplankton blooms. And whether phytoplankton blooms or not could have an impact on the earth's future.

This is the RV Investigator, the newest of Australia’s national scientific vessels, built in a Singapore Shipyard and worth $120 million. What's it like on board?

‘I'd much rather be growing things than killing things,’ says Geoff Williams on the eve of a deer hunt. ‘I'd love to come down here and just walk around in the scrub, but I spend too many hours chasing these other bloody animals.’

Ten years in the making, today is the day that 100 rare orchids will be planted into a rabbit proof enclosure, locked down inside cages. They're delicate and they are disingenuous when it comes to reproduction. Ladies and gentlemen: the Yellow-lip Spider-orchid.

Cheap supermarket orchids may act as a 'gateway drug' to the exotic and challenging world of orchidelirium.

The northern hopping-mouse is a master builder. It's barely big enough to fill the palm of your hand, yet it digs metres worth of burrows with multiple secret entrances AND it cleans up after itself.

Move over Masterchef. Here's a recipe sure to please any numbats in your life - custard with a garnish of fresh termites.

There are fewer numbats than there are pandas or orangutans in the world, and keeping the captive breeding numbats in peak condition is a full time job.