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Highly transparent glass can lead to devastating collisions. But innovations in design are creating safer skylines – without sacrificing beauty

Just in time for Christmas, Adams county SPCA adopts out 598 animals and reunites 125 with their owners

Platypuses have not been seen in the Torrens since the 1880s, but now the river may be healthy enough to support the species again

Exemption under federal environment law to allow scientists to collect 25 of the critically endangered ‘walking fish’

Conservationists call for more action after reptiles, fish and birds added to list, including 10 species deemed critically endangered

Wolves are the first part of a plan to reintroduce the endangered species into the state after it was eradicated in the region

Cat chases laser pointer dot in 15-second video, designed to test possibility of sending streaming video through deep space

Flat-faced breeds have longer Rem sleep phases, suggesting their sleep remains puppy-like, researchers say

Bull was first spotted on train tracks and eventually corralled inside a fenced lot near Newark Liberty international airport

Simon Paul and Travis Branson accused of making ‘significant sums of cash’ from killing birds in Montana over several years

A symbol of spring and rebirth, the robin is a favourite of gardeners and poets alike

Veterinarians explain how concerned you need to be about the so-called kennel cough, especially during the holiday season

Gatorland in Orlando consulting public for name after birth of ‘absolutely extraordinary’ leucistic gator

Atsushi Ozawa accused of using car to kill common pigeon, which vets said died of traumatic shock

Woman was reported to have just gotten married and the man paddleboarding with her as her groom

The Great Pyrenees from Decatur, Georgia, defended his flock of sheep by killing eight coyotes and is up for a $5,000 cash prize

The animal escaped handlers during a rest stop in Ontario while being transported to a zoo in Quebec

New Zealand’s national icon is also one of its most vulnerable birds and conservationists believe it was absent from capital for generations

The threatened bird index reveals largest declines were in Queensland and South Australia

Major wildfires in 2014 and 2015 killed a multitudinous number and destroyed vast swaths of their natural territory

Use of cattle from country free of mad cow disease means product is safe, experts say, and patients can still donate blood

The Eurasian eagle owl has been living in Central Park since escaping the zoo, and just returned from a Lower East Side visit

Local celebrity spent weeks outwitting animal control officers and was praised by residents of West Orange for bringing ‘town together’

A sea of rats has been washing up dead on the beach, with others scurrying across boat ramps into garden sheds and homes

Ecologist Stephen Williams says tropics ‘at a real risk of losing the very things it was made a world heritage area to protect’

Zoo says it is caring for the 25th and 26th kittens to end up rescued there, and calls for more wildlife crossings

Dingo lovers seek a political response to new understanding of a carnivore considered kin by First Nations people and villain by many farmers

Finney the jack russell terrier had survived after spending more than 10 weeks by her owner when he died on a mountain hike

Flinders University palaeontologists use new details about ancient raptors to paint a more complete picture of Pleistocene-era Australia

Annual competition inundated with a record number of votes after comedian took the Australasian crested grebe under his wing

Officials have hired an exterminator to kill the city’s most notorious residents by gassing their burrows

Experts warn Melbourne and Sydney gardeners to look out for the species, commonly referred to as the cabbage moth, which has flourished this year

Amber Harris woke to the sound of what she thought was somebody breaking into her car but found a tired southern elephant seal

Draft of animal care and protection act may make Victoria first state to explicitly recognise animal sentience

‘My two precious pythons have been safely returned to me,’ the woman wrote on social media

Our feline friends kill more than 300 million native animals a year. Can we keep them and protect our wildlife too?