Koala run over by e-bike in Brisbane
A koala has had a lucky escape after being run over by an e-bike on the side of…
In 2021, scientists tested 20 bonnethead sharks and found they use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, suggesting sharks may have a magnetic map |
Twenty bonnethead sharks were given an unusual test at a Florida State University laboratory in 2021: could they…
In 2021, National Geographic reported that Sydney cockatoos can pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the learned trick had spread across 44 suburbs | World News
Cockatoo in Sydney. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons News from Sydney about cockatoos that learned to open garbage bins…
‘Code brown’: Aussies’ hilarious interview after shark sighting
A colourful interview with two young boaties about a recent shark sighting left presenters in stitches on Sunday…
A tiny owl flew 70 miles out to sea and collapsed on a yacht, exhausted and too weak to fly, she found an unlikely group of rescuers who refused to leave her behind
Sergeant Mark Petherbridge (L) and Captain Tom Court (R) with rescued barn owl, Little Regina, aboard Fujitsu British…
‘Best Day of My Entire Life’: Incredible Polar Bear Encounter in Remote Canada
A breathtaking encounter with a polar bear in Canada’s Arctic left one Nunavut resident describing the moment as…
It has a rather grotesque face, electric organs, venomous spines and can swallow prey whole thanks to its huge mouth, which can suck them right in
Stargazers are a group of around 50 different fish species, each one as odd as the next. These…
Researchers have documented mugger crocodiles and American alligators positioning sticks and twigs on or around their snouts during birds’ nesting season — apparently using the sought-after nesting material as bait to lure birds within striking distance.
A crocodile lies still in shallow water near a colony of nesting birds, most of its body underwater,…
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 years
Samara reintroduced wild cheetahs to the Great Karoo in 2004 after 130 years. (Picture: Samara) In 1997, couple…
Hawaii once considered releasing cats to kill invasive rats on an island; scientists rejected the idea because the cats would attack native birds too | World News
Image: Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Department of Land and Natural Resources Lehua Island, a 284-acre seabird sanctuary…
Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touching it
The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead…