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A Spanish tourist was crushed to death by a herd of elephants inside South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park after he left his vehicle to take a close-up photo of the breeding animals, local police said.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, which opened in 1927, is a popular destination for getting up close and personal with the loveable Australian marsupial.
A stingray that got pregnant at a North Carolina aquarium this winter despite not having shared a tank with a male of her species for many years has died.
The planet is facing what conservationists have labelled the 'sixth great extinction of life on Earth', but now an international team of researchers have pinpointed the exact locations we need to save to avert the crisis.
A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.
A grizzly bear that attacked a hiker in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park in the USA won't be captured or killed by wildlife authorities because it may have been trying to protect a cub, park officials said in a statement.
It comes days after three of the native birds were spotted with near-identical injuries hundreds of kilometres away in Maitland in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Molly was taken in by authorities two weeks ago as its keepers, Gold Coast couple Juliette Wells and Reece Mortensen, did not have a permit to keep the magpie at their Gold Coast home.
The resulting twilight, with only the sun's outer atmosphere or corona visible, was long enough for birds and other animals to fall silent, and for planets and stars to pop out.
A rare calf born with two faces – four eyes, two noses, two mouths and two ears – continued to flourish today, eight days after its birth at a southwest Louisiana farm in the US.