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Other species which displayed a positive response to visitors included penguins, jaguars and cheetahs.

The scrubby harbour-side hills of a South African city recently revealed details of an historical event that transformed Australian coastlines. That event led to the arrival in Australia of a native South African shrub, bitou bush. The invader went on to become one of Australia’s worst weeds, smothering coastal dune…

New eggs are expected to hatch but two nests remain unoccupied after some birds didn't return from wintering in warmer climes

Timber boxes with infrared detectors and radio communications are creating hope for some of the country's most vulnerable species in an Australian-first pilot program on the Sunshine Coast.

Two recent coronial inquests have thrust kambo into the spotlight in Australia. So why do people choose to burn their skin and apply the frog poison?

On May 21, 1853, the first public aquarium was opened as part of the London Zoo. First called the “Fish House” in Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens, it was made possible by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.

Olive Ridleys laid eggs after a gap of 14 years at Trasi beach this January, and 70 hatchlings were released to the Arabian Sea from one nest.

The fish is normally found between 150m and 400m down

Scientists expected cold-blooded animals would grow to have smaller bodies as adults. This may not be true, according to a new study of Eurasian perch over 24 years.

There are growing concerns that aggressive orcas are seemingly teaching one another how to sink boats in the Mediterranean as a British couple were attacked earlier this month

Just 192 hectares of ‘natural colonisation’ have been established in England under woodland creation offer