The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers – here’s how we worked this out
Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol…
Why do wombats do square poos and leave them lying around? It could be a message
Dr Scott CarverYou know, wombats put those cube poos in all sorts of kind of curious places and…
Elephant charges at tourists, shoves floundering woman underwater after party drifts too close to its calves: video
A fed-up mama elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to her babies in…
Determined Scientists Created Only Puffin Colony in the US, and Continue to Protect it Decades Later
Eastern Egg Rock Island – credit CC0 Lisapaulinet For 50 years, the state of Maine has drawn worldwide…
Pine Martens spotted on night vision camera in the Mendips
PA Pine Martens have been extinct in Somerset for more than 100 years. A rare sighting of a…
Record-Breaking Great White Shark Spent the Summer Near Popular Beaches
We covered a study last week in which researchers tested bite-resistant wetsuit material with real sharks. Their testing…
A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel
What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start…
Is there such a thing as a ‘problem shark’? Plan to catch repeat biters divides scientists | Sharks
First was the French tourist, killed while swimming off Saint-Martin in December 2020. The manager of a nearby…
Possum infestations Australia: How to prevent possums making your house their home as demand for removal surges ahead of summer
They might be cute, but possums are proving a huge nuisance for Aussies trying to get some sleep…
‘Thought I was going to die’
It took merely minutes for the paralysing symptoms to flood Billy’s body after he was bitten on the…
Shark nets do protect human life
In the well orchestrated war against shark nets in NSW, truth has long been the first casualty. The…
Rare photos capture fishing cat preying on monitor lizard in the Sundarbans
In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the…