Spider webs blanket rural Victoria, Australia
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A Cortinarius archeri beaming after rain.
Lake Hillier, Australia.
Boletellus obscurecoccineus, photographed in Australia.
Deep-Sea Animal Species Look Like Mushrooms but Defy Classification
The new animal species Dendrogramma enigmaticaI, shown here, was pulled from the deep sea off Australia in 1986 but has only now been scientifically described. The opaque portion is its highly branched digestive canal. Two species are recognised and current evidence suggest that they represent an early branch on the tree of life, with similarities to the 600 million-year-old extinct Ediacara fauna.
False bus stops
In Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany, some nursing homes build false, imitation bus stops for their patients who are suffering from dementia. Some of these bus stops are even fitted with outdated advertisements and timetables — 30 years outdated.
The patients will sit at the bus stop waiting for a bus to take them to their imagined destination. After some time the nursing staff comes to escort the clients back to the retirement home.
Scientists are working to classify a new species of giant jellyfish that washed up on an Australian beach. The 1.5-metre (4ft 11inch) specimen was found by the Lim family in the southern state of Tasmania when they were collecting shells on a beach in Howden. They took a picture and contacted a marine biologist who said the type of jellyfish had been seen in the past, but she had never seen one so big, or one that has become beached.
The Stag Horn Fern (Platycerium superbum) is native to Australia. The most common of the “Giant Staghorns” — these are solitary species characterized by huge shields, which form a nest. It never requires water, and tolerates draught and long rainy periods. This is the most cold-hardy staghorn.
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