Look at Me

The underwater punk straight out of the realm of science fiction

In this final episode of Look at Me, we dive into the ocean’s to discover a creature that is perhaps the most bizarre animal Rae has ever seen. This dazzling group of sea

The scientist who dedicated her life to the mysterious springtail – Look at Me podcast

In the 1950s Dr Penelope Greenslade became one of the few women to study at Cambridge University. She then travelled to Solomon Islands where her love affair with the spr

The tenacious bird abandoning its young in a giant thermal mound

In some of the most harsh habitat in Australia, you’ll find what looks like giant piles of dirt. But dig deeper and you’ll find the eggs of the malleefowl, buried in leaf

The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

This marsupial mouse enters its first mating season with a thirty-fold increase in testosterone. It copulates at a frenetic rate, only to collapse afterwards, dying from

The gym junkie of the sky

Imagine flying thousands of kilometres to avoid getting cold. Meet the bird that starts its migration journey at a Siberian bush doof and ends up on the mudflats of easte

The ants keeping an endangered butterfly alive

Imagine outsourcing childcare to a nest of ants? This may not be the best idea for humans but a certain insect is making it work. Now the Eltham copper butterfly’s amazin

Introducing Look at Me season 2

When it comes to Australian native animals, everyone thinks about koalas and kangaroos and drop bears and wombats. But what about the creepy ones? What about the niche on

Our rare tiny marsupial, hanging on in the mountains – Look at me podcast

When we think of the effects of climate change it’s easy to focus on rising sea levels – but what about the changes happening much higher up? At Mount Hotham in Victoria

The 3-metre worm you will never have seen – Look at me podcast

Eastern Victoria is home to a strange creature that few have seen and even fewer have researched. You may be able to hear its gurgles under the ground but the 1.5- to 3-m

Searching for Australia's most elusive marsupial – Look at me podcast

If you’ve ever travelled to an Australian desert, you may have been in the presence of one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials. The Anangu people call it the itjaritja

The mind-blowing life of the gateway bee – Look at Me podcast

When you think about bees you probably thinking about honey, hives and yellow and black stripes, but these traits aren’t present in the majority of Australian bees. The b

Number one on death row: saving the phantom of the plains – Look at Me podcast

In episode two of Guardian Australia’s Look at Me podcast, we head to the south eastern plains of Australia – home to one of the rarest birds in the world, the plains-wan

The amazing life and death of the ocean's greatest camouflage expert - Look at Me podcast

Once a year in freezing cold winter waters, a gathering happens off the coast of South Australia. Hundreds of thousands of giant cuttlefish come to mate but this natural

What is Look at me? - Look at me podcast

Forget the kangaroo and koala. Our new podcast dives deep into the world of Australian animals, looking beyond the old favourites to the most unusual, rare and fascinatin