With well above average temperatures forecast for much of Queensland and the north-east corner of New South Wales throughout the week, experts warn snakes are likely to be out and about.
The NSW government's shooting of brumbies from helicopters in Kosciuszko National Park can continue after a judge dismissed a challenge by a local non-profit group.
It's not bushfires and it's not predators: An estimated 10 million native animals are killed on Australian roads every year, and that number is rising.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, which opened in 1927, is a popular destination for getting up close and personal with the loveable Australian marsupial.
Three runaway horses bolted through the streets of central London on Monday after one was spooked by a bus and two others tossed their riders, the Army said.
A stingray that got pregnant at a North Carolina aquarium this winter despite not having shared a tank with a male of her species for many years has died.
A woman has been convicted of repeated animal cruelty offences after a court found that four horses in her care had been left to become severely underweight.
The planet is facing what conservationists have labelled the 'sixth great extinction of life on Earth', but now an international team of researchers have pinpointed the exact locations we need to save to avert the crisis.