LodgeTony Sounds from Australia

Learning, Sharing, Nature, beach fishing and Evergreen original music.

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

I'm sharing 10 minutes of background music expressed through guitar. Your listen is appreciated. https://t.co/U0cD4xBEq9

[Rebecca Herbert @RebeccaH2030]

Blacktip reef sharks are predators up to 2 meters long that inhabit shallow waters near coral reefs.

#TiredEarth #biodiversity #ocean

[Melissa Cristina Márquez @mcmsharksxx]

What A 5-Million-Year-Old Bite Reveals About Climate Change And Sharks

https://t.co/qFdwndIPUy

As oceans warm, similar predator-prey dynamics could return, offering a glimpse into the future through the lens of the past.

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@mcmsharksxx Interesting read :)

[martin price @smart0406]

Forest Kingfisher - near Mossman, Queensland #Australia #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

#BeachFishingNorthQld cool still sunny morning, magic to see blue sky. #blacktipreefshark pup. Eye,nose and mouth profile close up. A quick pic and released. #FarNorthQld #Queensland

[kenny 🌿 @frogkenny]

australians please keep posting your cool birds i am planning to visit your country and am making a list

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@frogkenny Hi Kenny. "Here's one" a #TorresStraitIslandPigeon or Torresian imperial pigeon. To name a few. Here in Far North Queensland you start to see them in numbers from October in to the new year.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A study of ancient Aboriginal hair samples has revealed distinct Aboriginal populations were present in Australia with little geographical movement for up to 50,000 years.

The discovery of such a long, continuous presence in the those regions emphasised why land was so sacred to Aboriginal people, researchers said.

The results emerged after researchers led by the University of Adelaide’s Australian centre for ancient DNA analysed the mitochondrial DNA from 111 hair samples collected during anthropological expeditions in the early to mid-1900s. The samples are stored at the South Australian Museum.

Mitochondrial DNA is the powerhouse that drives the conversion of food into energy, and is useful to researchers because it carries genetic material passed exclusively between a mother and her children, allowing maternal ancestry to be traced.

Despite the age of the hair samples and the fact that they were collected under harsh environmental conditions, the researchers were surprised to find high concentrations of good quality mitochondrial DNA.

Their analysis found Aboriginal Australians are the descendants of a single founding population that arrived in Australia 50,000 years ago, while Australia was still connected to New Guinea. Populations then spread rapidly – within 1,500 to 2,000 years – around the east and west coasts of Australia, meeting somewhere in South Australia.

One of the researchers, the geneticist Dr Ray Tobler, said the samples meant Aboriginal ancestry could now be genetically traced back in time to a point that pre-dated European colonisation, when Aboriginal people were still living in their traditional areas, supporting what the archeological evidence already shows.

Having the genetic information was crucial because after colonisation Aboriginal people were forced off country or forcibly removed from their families and scattered all over Australia, Tobler said. “If you want to do historical research on the connection between people and land you can’t do it using modern Aboriginal people because of that disconnection,” he said.

“I have Aboriginal ancestry through my granddad but he never spoke about it because he was removed from his family. A lot of people in my situation interested in recording their history can do so through this project.”

The hair samples identified four main distinct types of maternal DNA, which they labeled “P”, “O”, “S” and “M”. Those in the O group were overwhelmingly found on the west and south coast of Australia, the researchers found. Those with the other three types mainly stuck to the east coast.

The researchers know this because the sample collectors kept detailed information about birthplaces, family history and family trees, and this – combined with film, audio and written records – allowed the researchers to create a map of movement and reconstruct history.

The project leader, Prof Alan Cooper, said it was “amazing” that the team had found Aboriginal communities have remained in discrete geographical regions. “This is unlike people anywhere else in the world and provides compelling support for the remarkable Aboriginal cultural connection to country,” he said.

“During that period of time, with massive climate changes and massive environmental shifts, you might therefore have expected people to respond by moving all over the place.

“Clearly the environment did change significantly but nevertheless they were able to survive in one area with a fixed set of resources for up to 50,000 years. Nowhere else in world have humans been able to demonstrate an ability to do that. We don’t have a great record of living in balance with anything.”

It illustrated the enormous amount of respect, knowledge and affinity Aboriginal people must have had with the land, and to specific areas of land, to survive, Cooper said.

© The Guardian

#archaeohistories

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

#BeachFishingNorthQld #Kingthreadfin Nick name #KingSalmon Juvenile,1st pic. Amazing table fish here in far North Queensland. Subject to heavy fishing over the years, now bouncing back due to regulations. Fish under 65cms must be released. Pics and fish caught by Tldge.

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

Rob Croll 2x world boomerang champion from Vic who wrestled the title back from Chet Snouffer (USA)
Holding a Cooper Creek style fighting boomerang.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Coastal cities are replacing concrete seawalls with oyster reefs. The oysters are better at the job.

Seawalls start degrading the day they're installed. Waves chew them up, storms crack them, and the repairs never stop.

An oyster reef, on the other hand, doesn't break down. It actually grows. The oysters stack, reproduce, and fuse into living rock that gets stronger every year. A mature reef can cut incoming wave height by up to 83%, trap sediment, rebuild the shoreline behind it, and shelter fish, crabs, and shrimp while it does the work.

A hectare of reef provides up to $85,000 a year in shoreline protection. Concrete costs over a million dollars a hectare to build and only weakens.

Once again, working with nature instead of against it is the answer.

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

A few years back now. This is our reconciliation float we put together in Mackay Queensland #VoicesForReconciliation

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@smart0406 Very wide spread here in far North Queensland. Torrential rain and this well camoflauged mum has not moved of her egg. Gotta watch where you step. Pic from the back yard.

[Skyhooks @Skyhooks1975]

3XY chart May 7th 1976. Skyhooks at #15. Let It Rock.

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@NbergWX "Well fuck the air we breathe"

[Skyhooks @Skyhooks1975]

Bongo & Red join the early Steve Hill line up. Photo at the Super Show 1973 (Macainsh Archives via Skyhooks)

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@nvolpewild Is the music we listen to real or technicalised beyond the beauty of imperfect human expression. ??

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A toad that went extinct in the wild has finally returned home.

The Kihansi spray toad lived in one place on Earth: a five-acre patch of permanent mist at the base of a waterfall in the Kihansi Gorge, Tanzania.

In 1999, a dam cut the waterfall's flow by 90%. The mist dried up. Then chytrid fungus, the disease wiping out amphibians worldwide, arrived. By 2004 the toad was considered extinct the wild. The population crashed from around 20,000 to zero.

Before the last ones disappeared, biologists collected 499 toads and flew them to the Bronx Zoo and Toledo Zoo. The captive population nearly collapsed too, bottoming out at 72 animals. Zookeepers had to figure out how to keep a mist-dependent, live-bearing toad alive in a building in New York.

And figure it out they did. The population climbed back into the thousands. Tanzania built a sprinkler system to recreate the waterfall's mist.

And starting in 2012, the toads went home, the first amphibian ever declared extinct in the wild and then successfully returned to its native habitat.

[martin price @smart0406]

Not actually a Turkey but a Megapode, the Australian Brushturkey, Lamington National Park, Queensland #Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds

[LodgeTony Sounds from Australia @LodgeTony]

@smart0406 Mackay locals call them bush chooks, still do, always get corrected though. "They are a turkey" folks would reply. Great little visitors in a north Queensland yard. Pic from an old post, quote from a cane farmer "seen one seen them all"