Australia is famously full of such deadly animals - and this room at the Australian Reptile Park plays a critical part in a government antivenom programme, which saves lives on a continent where ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Townsville. Followed categories will be added to My News. The phone, dubbed the Remote Connector by Telstra, sits in the outback town of Doomadgee, and has ...

Aristotle famously declared that we are rational animals. Since his time, various other thinkers have pointed out other key qualities that differentiate us from other species and capture our ...

I've followed Dr. Clive Phillips' wide-ranging career and his eclectic transdisciplinary views of animal welfare and animal-human relationships. Clive was Australia's first professor of animal ...

Toxicologist Jamie Seymour’s job is riskier than most: milking sea creatures of their venom to create life-saving antidotes, or antivenoms. Dozens of Irukandji jellyfish, some no bigger than a ...

Victoria Police is investigating the suspicious fire, which engulfed a shop on Mahoneys Rd in Campbellfield about 3.40am on Wednesday. The fire then spread to nearby shops, including the King Pets ...

It is believed the animal, dubbed Skippy, was an exotic pet that escaped last week after kicking its way through a fence. The white wallaby caught in the country of Kent, UK. Picture: RSPCA Albino ...

“Having these hooked claws on the trackways indicates they’re definitely a reptile-like animal,” says John Long, a palaeontologist at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. There are no ...