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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

Legal kill technique considered industry best practice as footage shows some pigs writhing in distress

Last known thylacine died in 1936 but new research suggesting the animals may have survived longer in the wild ‘relies on a lot of maybes’, expert says

The Pine Mountain Animal Safari lost two of its big cats after it sustained weather damage, but found them a few hours later

Australia Museum says 20-year-old collection will help understand and conserve threatened animals, which are sensitive to climate change

Canarsie cow to meet fellow celebrity escapees at rescue center where animals live on vast pasture: ‘He’ll be ecstatic’

In an advertisement posted to their Facebook page, the department is seeking people who are fit, trusting and courageous

Animal Justice party’s Georgie Purcell wants scanning technology used on every dog, in real time, at every stage of life

Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups say

Scot Hollingsworth of Daytona Beach said he heard a noise and after opening door was bitten by 9ft alligator on the thigh

Research into critically endangered orange-bellied parrot finds 1mm difference in length of one feather is enough to reduce survival rate by 2.7 times

From protecting threatened species to backing coal developments, crucial decisions lie ahead for whoever wins the election

Stallion zebra, which was behaving ‘erratically’, shot dead by police after attacking Ronald Clifton, 72

Since the drug lord’s imported hippos escaped after his death in 1993, the government has repeatedly failed to tame the booming population