An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favor than a living animal colonized a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged, suggests a new study.
The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear [...]
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Photographs of a giant spider eating a bird in an Australian garden have stunned wildlife experts.
The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird suspended in its web.
The startling images were reportedly taken in Atheron, close to Queensland’s tropical north.
Despite their unlikely subject matter, the pictures [...]
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Forgoing layovers and snack stops, a bird known as the bar-tailed godwit has broken the record established for the world’s longest known non-stop bird flight, according to a new study.
The honor goes to a female named “E7″ that continuously flew 7,257 miles across the Pacific Ocean, breaking the [...]
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It was a normal Sunday afternoon at Pat Cowie’s place.
Until a pigeon laid an egg on the stovetop.
As they do.
The pigeon popped in an open door at Pat’s Evans Street home, climbed 14 stairs (leaving an incriminating trail of pigeon poo on the way), turned hard left at the top, wandered into the kitchen, and chose [...]
Cat lover Anthony Adams is fearing for the safety of children after he found his pet cat Midge with a bullet wound in the leg.
The cat’s right foreleg was shattered by a hollow-tip .22 bullet at Waitara’s East Beach.
“With a trigger happy prat like that around nowhere is safe,” Mr Adams said.
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A GIRL in the Northern Territory woke when a snake slithered into her bed, wrapped around her neck and bit her on the arm.
Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after the attack, the Northern Territory News reported.
The receptionist said she would be haunted [...]
EQUIPMENT to treat cancer patients at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne has been used after hours on pets for 17 years without the Victorian Government’s knowledge or approval.
After a Sunday newspaper reported that 22 animals had been treated at the hospital’s William Buckland Radiation Centre since 2005, it emerged that the practice had been going [...]
A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo’s director said Friday.
The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo’s security camera, happened early Wednesday at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in central Australia.
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In Ross Garnaut’s vision of a more carbon-conscious world, households would move away from eating lamb and beef and consume more kangaroo, pork and chicken.
Professor Garnaut reports that Australian marsupials such as kangaroos, unlike cattle and sheep, emit negligible amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
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Feral Indian palm squirrels are spreading across Perth and the public is being urged to report sightings so that the bushy-tailed creatures can be captured and destroyed.
It is the only feral squirrel population in Australia and the Department of Agriculture wants to stop it spreading because the squirrels damage buildings and crops and threaten native [...]
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