The Australian scorpion fauna is diverse and poorly documented, which is of conservation concern for biomes under strong mining pressure. We describe two new species of burrowing scorpions from the Pilbara (Western Australia), where they are patchily distributed along creek lines. The new species have a remarkable sexually dimorphic telson, which is swollen and bears a strongly curved aculeus in males. The species are indistinguishable from each other based on external morphology, highlighting the extremely conserved morphology in the group. Photograph by Huon L. Clark.

A thermal camera was set up at the entrance to a cave in Cape York and a total of 463 ghost bats (Macroderma gigas) were filmed as they emerged from the cave. This colony is now believed to be the largest in Queensland. Photograph by John Augusteyn QPWS.

Understanding dietary selection is an important consideration when selecting species and managing food plantations for koalas. Providing captive koalas with a variety of different Eucalyptus species and foliage maturity ensures that they can select species and nutrients that they require. Photograph by Steve Withnall.

This article belongs to the Collection Koala Feeding and Stress Since the 2019/2020 Australian Bushfires.

We used 100 paired point counts by the road and 400 m into the forest. No overall difference in the assemblages was found. The narrowness of the road under the forest canopy and the natural variation of eucalypt forests were factors to which the birds were pre-adapted. Photograph by G. R. Fulton.