On a cool October evening, long after most birds have roosted, a living cloud rises from the wheat fields of southeastern Australia. Each insect in that swarm ...

On Thursday, Aubergine was gently anesthetized so vets could take a closer look at what might be bothering him. The hippo ...

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Possum gets nervous before his school concert. He learns why it's important to try new things.

Tamika Sueann-Rose Chesser, 34, a former “Beauty and the Geek Australia” contestant, was charged with murder. Instagram/@tamikachesser “I can tragically say that we have not recovered the ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...

Their pet should die with pignity. A Staten Island family is fighting to keep its dying pet pig at home in its final days but the city wants the animal out – even if it means taking it by force ...

60-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Texas Was Home to Giant Prehistoric Possums Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it’s connected to early primate ...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation violated labor law when it took Antoinette Lattouf off the air after she posted on Instagram about Gaza, the court ruled.

A Victorian sawmill has harvested wood from endangered mountain ash forests and sold it to Domino's as woodchips to smoke meat for pizzas.

Source: NFSA/FNSSA An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) this week.

Could a blunder in a laboratory 10 years ago solve New Zealand’s rabbit and possum pest plague, and offer a non-deadly alternative to the controversial 1080 poison question? Mike Thorpe reports.