The unfinished and disused tunnels under the centre of Australia's biggest city are home to bomb shelters and an albino eel, among other things. Explore the area for yourself - just put on your headphones, close your eyes and let Ann Jones take you deep underground.

It walks around the forest kicking tree trunks with force, and although that makes it sound like an absolute monster, the cassowary is actually a frugivore which will happily nibble on fallen fruit rather than ripping your arm off.

Though their national population is stable, the movement of the ibis into urban areas sounds an alarm for wetlands in trouble.

The power of your new 4WD is nothing compared to the power of the tide.

With the body of a sexy sports car and the heart of an environmentalist: this car could be Australia's first road-legal solar vehicle.

More than 40,000 trees have been planted, so far, for the superb parrots of the future.

Australian mammals are an anatomically idiosyncratic bunch. Just look at a platypus bill. Beyond the curious bill though — how much do you know about monotremes? Ann Jones meets the author of a new book featuring remarkable x-rays of unique Australian mammals.

What makes a person put their own suitcase in the back of the closet and decide to buy their own motel on the edge of arid Australia?

It turns out your every day interactions with the glorious Australian magpie are far from mundane.

Delicately fluttering past in the sunlight, you wouldn't know that the monarch butterfly is an invasive insect and that it's only been able to survive here because of a poisonous set of weeds from Africa and the Caribbean.