Animals

With millions of feral rabbits currently hopping around the continent, you might wonder if the viruses that kept their numbers down in the past still work.

The federal chemical regulator has ruled that some of Australia's most popular over-the-counter rat baits will be taken off supermarket shelves, but experts say domestic and industry pest control is still viable.  

King penguins on islands in the Southern Ocean are breeding earlier and with a higher level of success than they did 24 years ago, a new study shows.

Rat baits could soon be restricted to licensed operators after a change in regulations from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.

Wildlife cameras snap rare pictures of blond echidnas, a tiny white-footed dunnart, and threatened seabirds on a small island off Tasmania's north coast.

WA Police officer-in-charge captures crocodile from Kimberley backyard.

Fitzroy Crossing police officer-in-charge Mark Howes says no-one else was available to help remove a freshwater crocodile from a local backyard, "so I thought I'd have a crack".

Authorities say they will rehome a 2.3 metre saltwater crocodile that was found in a dam near Gatton, hundreds of kilometres from its usual habitat.

After swapping corporate city life for her family's remote seventh-generation farm, Courtney Moir has claimed the top spot in this year's season of Muster Dogs.

Large, dead marine animals found on Eyre Peninsula beaches spark concern among locals. 

A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery.

Animal welfare advocates in the Kimberley say more needs to be done to stop animal abuse and neglect.

Hidden in the dark of night, more than 1,000 endangered frogs have been released back into waterways in north-west NSW.

Australia's first death from a tick-induced allergy has sparked calls to ramp up awareness among the public and the medical profession.

Reptile experts are searching for several juvenile freshwater crocodiles that have been spotted in a New South Wales creek.

When turtles are struck on country roads, their shattered shells can mean certain death, but one rescuer in Victoria's east is patching them up and sending them home.

Rescued nearly a decade ago by his owner, Bruce the Brahman bull has since grown into one of the Great Southern's most beloved icons.

There's surely a reason we all went briefly nuts about a lonely little snow monkey called Punch living in a Japanese zoo.

When Scott Dixon-Smith started his career, his workplace accommodated his blindness but not his sexuality. Tonight, he will march in the pride parade with the help of his guide dog, Pretzel.

The results of a four-year-trial were obtained by a conservation group under right to information laws.