Ashley Hay
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The Baskerville Case: Norfolk Island’s chickens
Ashley Hay
There are several things an astute observer will notice on arriving to Norfolk Island. First, the island’s eponymous pine trees, which rise...
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Operation Tom Yum
Ashley Hay
Perhaps it was because I'd just seen the trailer for the new James Bond movie, but I was hoping for trench coats or disguises when I sat...
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Lovely Bones: Making Sense of the Flores Find
Ashley Hay
This something took three days to extricate. It was a skeleton, so tantalisingly conserved that some of its sections were still joined, and...
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The Charm of a Charm
Ashley Hay
Early one May morning, on the edge of Brisbane's Mt Coo-tha, a hundred people gather in a car park. The air is sharp, the light clear, and...
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Mane Attraction
Ashley Hay
Under the spreading shade of a gum tree at the Mogo Zoo, just down from Batemans Bay, a furry cluster of lion cubs is at play: batting at a...
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Lazarus Taxa
Ashley Hay
Extinction is one of the most popularly understood scientific ideas - that dangerous slide through the categories ‘threatened', ‘vulnerable...
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Written in the Body
Ashley Hay
On a table of its own, in the pulmonary section of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales, sits a solid-looking...
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Ticked Off
Ashley Hay
The unlikely combination of a small seaside village in Crete and an Adelaide-born Kylie Minogue look-alike would not have suggested, to the...
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Storm Spotters
Ashley Hay
It's not every day you get to call Zeus, but that's what it felt like as I dialled the number for Andrew Haigh at the Bureau of Meteorology...
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The Human Zoo
Ashley Hay
Walking through the gates of the Adelaide Zoo one day in late January, I passed a man asking what kinds of Australian animals were inside....
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