Queensland news: Quick-thinking driver saves koala and joey from close call with truck on North Stradbroke Island
A quick-thinking couple swooped in to save a koala and her tiny joey moments before disaster struck on…
A deadly cross over: In South Africa, rabies moves from land animals to seals
Cape Town, South Africa, has recorded 135 incidents of aggressive seal behavior toward humans since September 2021,…
Rare muskox with fur like a ‘magical grass skirt’ spotted in Labrador West
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Japanese Carrion crows have found a clever way to crack hard walnuts, turning passing cars into their own nutcrackers |
Carrion crows were observed using roads as a tool for opening walnuts. Instead of cracking every shell themselves,…
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer…
Harry Green obituary | Wildlife
The conservationist Harry Green was a naturalist of the amateur school, with an encyclopedic knowledge of British wildlife…
Conservationists carry the eggs of the world’s rarest duck for 44km on foot. Here’s why
After heavy rainfall threatened nests of the Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, conservationists collected its eggs from…
It moves like a cat, climbs like a primate and spends much of its time high up in trees — meet the world’s strangest dog
In the last moments of a glorious winter sunset in the Sonoran Desert – the ‘Magic Hour’, as…
Bird flu suspected to have spread to seal at key breeding ground off Kangaroo Island
A suspected case of H5 bird flu has been detected in a seal at a key breeding ground,…
After years of invasive rats threatening island wildlife, Tuvalu removed them from six islets; residents are now seeing birds and coconut crabs return |
On small islands scattered across the Pacific, changes in wildlife can be surprisingly easy to notice. A few…
Students set up little blue penguin nesting boxes along Wellington coast
Intermediate students build homes for Kororā penguins Schoolchildren are setting up nesting boxes for little blue penguins along…
An Australian family noticed snakes disappearing into a backyard mulch pile; snake catchers found 102 venomous snakes underneath | World News
A few snakes disappearing into a backyard mulch pile had seemed like a worrying but manageable problem for…