Before traveling to North Queensland, prepare yourself by learning about ... One great day trip from Cairns is the bohemian town of Kuranda, nestled in the nearby rainforest.

This story appears in the Spetember 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the ground in front of me there’s a large round pile of what looks like moist purple mud. It’s roughly the ...

Giant wombats, meat-eating kangaroos and a tree-climbing crocodile are some of the animals stuck in time at Cairns Aquarium’s ...

There are many incredible reasons to explore Australia ... and the Daintree Rainforest, the main part of the Wet Tropics of ...

An orchid weevil made its way into the Cairns Botanic Gardens undetected until plants began to show signs of distress, but by ...

Many spectacled flying foxes were found dead around Cairns, a city in ... and the Solomon Islands. In Australia, the species is only found in a small rainforest region of northern Queensland ...

Cairns Aquarium ... remains of Australia’s key animals that used to live there 25 to 50 million years ago.” “At that time, western Queensland was a beautiful tropical rainforest, but as ...