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View as a webpage   When a whale dies Surrounded by hungry sharks, a dead whale washed up into Adelaide's port this week. Next, a large terrestrial scavenger descended to investigate: scientists! For researchers, the specimens collected feed into their research projects and provide tiny time capsules that will be preserved and analysed for decades. Animals have been hogging the science headlines this week — there's the babbles of baby bats, a battle between a tortoise and a tern, the fate of frogs with fungus, and the impact of the mouse plague  on our owls. And thanks to your help, more than 15,000 owl calls have been detected in Hoot Detective. This eucalypt woodland has recorded the most calls. More ABC science and technology: Web | Facebook | Twitter Feast of a lifetime? When a whale dies, it becomes a floating buffet for all sorts of creatures — and scientists.   READ MORE The tortoise and the tern How a tiny bird got chased down by the world's slowest predator.  READ MORE Lifestyle medicine Anu has had chronic pain for decades, and has signed up to see if 'lifestyle medicine' can help.  READ MORE Faux COVID certificate Near-perfect forgeries of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine digital certificate can be made in 10 minutes.  READ MORE Threatening our owls There is growing concern about the risk of household rat poisons to wildlife like owls.  READ MORE Babbling baby bats Bats pick up their vocal skills through babbling — and it could tell us more about how human language evolved.   READ MORE Frog fungus  Scientists have identified the frogs most likely to become extinct in the next 20 years if more isn't done to save them.   READ MORE The Newsreader An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; an ambitious reporter and a notoriously "difficult" star newsreader join forces to survive in the high-octane world of a 1986 newsroom.   STREAM NOW   ABC iview Recommended podcasts Raucous and mischievous The annual Beaker Street Science Festival debate on Science Friction features Bob Brown, Barbara Holland and more, with a touch of vaudeville.  LISTEN NOW The sick sense Can you tell someone is sick just by looking at them? It turns out many of us can. Dr Karl investigates in this Great Moment in Science.  LISTEN NOW In the sky this week with Ian Musgrave The Last Quarter Moon is Monday, August 30. Venus is readily visible in the evening twilight. Mercury continues to rise in the twilight. Mercury, Venus and the bright star Spica from a line in the late evening twilight. Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the evening sky. Venus is seen in the west and Jupiter in the east when the sky is fully dark.   READ MORE Discover more of the ABC on our Apps Find out how to download your favourite app. Follow us Need help? Visit the ABC Help Centre The ABC sent this message to cellphone.plan.newsarticles@blogger.com, these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC. Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Servces will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy ©2020 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC, ABN 52 429 278 345, 700 Harris St Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia   Unsubscribe from this Newsletter    |   Discover other Newsletters    |     Privacy Unsubscribe from this Newsletter Discover other Newsletters Privacy

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