For the second time this year, a rare deep-sea oarfish has washed ashore in San Diego County, giving scientists a chance to study the species without plumbing the depths of …
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and …
Fireworks likely caused the death of a baby red panda at Edinburgh Zoo after she became so stressed that she choked on her own vomit, experts from the Royal Zoological …
Perhaps it was looking for some “koala-ty” sleep, or it was an ambassador from certain mattress company checking out the competition. An Adelaide couple got the shock of their lives …
The alarm has been sounded for dog owners amid confirmed outbreaks of a highly contagious and often fatal disease. Cases of canine parvovirus (parvo) have been found in the northern …
Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated over 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically within other primitive …
An emperor penguin has become the first wild member of its species to ever set foot on Australian shores. But this is no royal tour — the 1m-tall bird was …
In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a clone of one of the world’s largest sheep species. Court documents allege that …
One of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in the US state of South Carolina has been recovered unharmed, officials say. Many of the others are …
Pet owners are being warned to stay vigilant to the dangers of a common grass seed as Australia enters the warmer months. Found in long grasses across the country, grass …