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Authorities are stumped after seven cows are mutilated in three counties within weeks

Scientific committee calls for ‘urgent action’ from the Albanese government to address damage caused to sensitive alpine ecosystems

It’s a scene that conjures images of the controversial British activity. UK hunters are travelling 16,000km to do it outside Melbourne

Researchers were particularly excited by the discovery of dunnarts on Kangaroo Island, where fires ravaged up to 90% of their habitat

PM says he is pleased to contribute to Friends of the Western Ground Parrot as the king ‘has long championed conservation’

US audiences will be sold a tale of horses battling for glory and adulation at Churchill Downs. But the actual story is far more disturbing

A survey by the Centre for Rural Criminology aims to get accurate numbers for a crime that farmers rarely bother to report

Watching sea snakes swim through water is soothing – until you remember they are real

Conservationists call for national response plan for possible arrival of HPAI H5, which so far has affected 300 species worldwide

Three-year-old named Frosty, which has rare genetic condition, captured by whale-watching group sailing from Newport Beach

Season kicks off with animal rights campaigners outnumbering hunters at one location amid a parliamentary inquiry

Two elderly cats found hiding under owner’s bed days after collapse of adjacent parking garage left them trapped

Experts ask the public to be on the lookout for the invasive species and kill them and their brood to protect US plant life

Oum Jeongsoon became fascinated with elephants more than a decade ago. Her latest sculpture has no trunk and invites touch – and it’s just won a $100,000 prize

Tributes pour in for Freeway, who was named after his rescue from a busy freeway last year

Emergency veterinarians in Philadelphia save dog’s life after suspected accidental drug overdose

South Carolina retirement community’s failure to ‘ensure against natural hazards’ led to death of Nancy Becker, 88, suit claims

Scientists raise alarm over avian influenza strain’s unprecedented deadliness and reach from farmed poultry and wild birds

Officials announce 45-day ban on harvesting elvers in provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

Author Curtis Sittenfeld on falling hopelessly in love with a brave, beautiful and occasionally malodorous chihuahua named Weenie

Animal rights organisations are concerned pets could be killed during event and animals could suffer ‘prolonged’ deaths

To get earthworms for fishing, people do a thing called ‘worm grunting’

While many consider them pests, Bronwen Scott has an affinity with the coppery brushtail possum that’s taken up lodgings in her roof

At the Easter Show’s Sydney Royal Cavy competition, almost 100 guinea pigs enter, but only one can win the coveted best in show ribbon

Government to reconvene taskforce after three people were injured in separate attacks on Wednesday

Exclusive: ‘Everyone told me it would never work’, says professor of nanomedicine, but science needs alternatives to experimenting on animals

Nine new species of fish are now on the brink of extinction, with scientists calling for urgent action to control invasive freshwater species

Two dogs seized by council from a Woodridge property after the child sustained significant abdominal, chest and shoulder injuries

Eight-week-old beige pup with one blue and one brown eye tossed out of moving vehicle in Michael Kors designer bag ‘miraculously’ OK

Soaring egg prices have fueled huge demand for backyard flocks, even as millions of ‘spent’ hens are killed yearly

Pest numbers are booming and the annual cull has been called off, forcing one rural council to look at other ways to control the rabbit boom

The machine in the northern prefecture of Akita sells locally killed wild bear captured by local hunters

‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions

Corgi Beach Day features corgi limbo, corgi musical chairs and an attempt for a world record photo of ‘most corgis in a carrier’

Three years after Australia’s firestorm tragedy, Alexis Wright offers a eulogy for the living creatures lost – and a plea for the humans left behind

The bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions