Stopping up rivers where platypuses reside is restricting the odd animals’ migration patterns and causing inbreeding, scientists say.
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In his new special, Aaron Chen realizes Norm Macdonald’s vision of the “perfect joke.”
A small Australian spider uses a Cirque du Soleil-worthy tactic to prey on fierce ants.
Sulfur-crested cockatoos are trash-can bandits in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Humans use tools to protect their bins, and the birds then go the extra mile to break in.
Invasive species can damage the ecosystems they wind up in. But in parts of the world, endangered predators make hearty meals out of them.
They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth.
Australia is the only major honey-producing country that has so far managed to contain the spread of a mite fatal to bees. That distinction is now in peril.
Baz Luhrmann is reworking his 2008 movie, Australia, into a miniseries.
Baz Luhrmann can do many things, but he cannot do less — especially not in Elvis.
The species is called Poseidon’s ribbon ****, and researchers say it has spread to cover an area the size of Cincinnati over the past 4,500 years.