"So we take alpacas out and train them to be a therapy animal," the description states. Tasmania is the only Australian state or territory that does not classify what "assistance animals" are ...

The heath hen once fluttered across the eastern U.S. in huge numbers. By the late 1800s, however, it had retreated to ...

The animal kingdom has many creatures with strong odors for defense. The stinkbird or hoatzin smells like manure due to its ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.

Across the U.S., each state faces unique challenges leading to the displacement of specific animal species. Factors like ...

It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilizers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop ...

The Tasmanian tiger hasn't been seen in the wild for nearly 90 years and is assumed by most scientists to be extinct, but ...

Clearly, we have long forgotten that just five years ago, more than 1 billion animals on this continent ... The Maugean skate has lived in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour for thousands of years ...

“P. salmonis fish bacterium does not grow in humans and do not present a human or animal health, or food safety risk,” he said. Industry body Salmon Tasmania said the microbe had devastated ...