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The article discusses how nature photography gives insight to moments captured in time that many see and discussed the photographs that entered in the 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year competition. Topics discussed include photographer Jason Stephens who was the winner of animal habitat photography capturing shirt beaked echidna, photographer Justin Gilligan who won the award for botanical photography and photographer Tiana Reimann who won for photo of crab spider.

Several letters to the editor in response to the articles including "Lost and found", "Colouring in the dinosaurs", and related to featuring of a dinosaur poster in the periodical are presented.

The article offers information related to wildlife in Australia. Information include longfin (Anguilla reinhardtii) and shortfin eels (A.australis) in Eel Run in Albert River, Queensland, the natural phenomenon siting in Kimberley region in Western Australia offered from May 21-23, 2016, and mating train of echidnas in Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

T he article offers information on the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), an egg-laying mammal that feeds its young on milk and is a highly adaptable creature that can thrive from arid deserts to cold alpine regions.

The article offers brief information on the Echidna CSI app which is used to track echidna populations in Australia.

Photographs of echidna taken by Tamara Montgomery, cloudy cliffs by Ben Blanche, and Australian sea lion by Jacqueline McGhie are presented.

The article focuses on the rock-art sites in the Nitmiluk National Park, Northern Territory. It states that the visitors are encouraged to see the Amphitheatre which appears on the third day of the trail. The amphitheater is described as having three main panels and paintings scattered on all its walls, there are paintings of turtles, emus and an X-ray rendering of a baby echidna. Also, some of the works have been catalogued, the walkers are genuinely moved to see such paintings in natural settings.

The article reports that researchers on an expedition into the remote western Kimberley region, Western Australia, hopes to find evidence of the western long-beaked echidna, a critically endangered species and found in relatively small numbers largely in the rainforests. The species is the world's largest egg-laying mammal.

The article informs that a video surveillance system hidden inside an echidna burrow at Perth Zoo is providing never-before-seen footage that will help to gather much information about how short-beaked echidnas breed. The footage will hopefully help with breeding programs for the critically endangered long-beaked echidnas of Papua New Guinea.

The article reports on a new research on the strange relationship between sleep and sex which will be studied at a new echidna research centre. The centre, which will involve 12 captive echidnas at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast and 12 free-range echidnas at the University of Queensland's Gatton campus, is set to be established around April 2006.