The Conversation

The 1990s are everywhere right now. From the fashion trends making a comeback in 2023 (I’m told), to the hotly anticipated return of the flashback mystery-box thriller Yellowjackets, it’s starting to feel like the millennium never happened. And where pop culture leads, politics inevitably follows. Events swirling around prime ministerContinue Reading

How we cracked the mystery of Australia's prehistoric giant eggs

The giant bird Genyornis went extinct in Australia around 50,000 years ago. Peter Trusler, Author provided It’s a long-running Australian detective story. From the 1980s onwards, researchers found eggshell fragments, and on rare occasions whole eggs, exposed in eroding sand dunes within the country’s arid zone (which covers most ofContinue Reading