Woman finds red-bellied black snake hiding in recliner chair
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It's amazing what you can find in the couch cushions.
It's amazing what you can find in the couch cushions.
An 18 month old fur seal, rescued by Taronga Zoo after the Sydney storms, was released back into the wild
The Lithuanian village of Ramygala held its annual beauty pageant on Sunday, the top prize going to a 16-month-old female goat called Demyte, or "Little Spot".
"We tried so hard": Lifeguards from hit reality TV show work to help injured dolphin.
The vulnerable Little Eagle species has bred on a site the CSIRO is planning for development.
A senior vet was expelled from her government role after she exposed the pain and suffering of the live cattle export trade, including animals coated in faeces and dying of heat exhaustion.
What will it take to bring an end to this trade? That's the question so many Australians will be asking our political leaders ahead of July's federal election.
A South African fisherman has shocked himself - and the internet - by snaring a mulloway as big as himself.
TV personality says tougher regulations around pets in cities has contributed to a sharp decline in ownership.
"You don't understand, this is about our survival."
​The woman was inside of her Colorado home Friday night when she heard the screams.
Distressing footage appearing to show Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam has sparked renewed calls to ban live cattle exports.
Distressing footage appearing to show Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam has sparked renewed calls to ban live cattle exports.
"Supermarkets want $1-a-litre milk on the supermarket shelves, but don't want $3-a-dozen eggs.''
A rodent that lived on a low-lying coral cay in the Torres Strait has become the first mammal in the world to vanish as a result of human-induced climate change, researchers say.
Police have rounded up 18 male suspects wanted for the murder of three in Gujarat, an arid western Indian state.
Research begins to avoid Canberra stench over biggest ever carp cull.
One woman's battle to save her family of elephants in Africa.
More than 12 million male chicks are suffocated or shredded to death each year because they're seen as worthless. This cruelty could soon end.
Bats across Queensland will be fitted with satellite trackers to allow researchers to better understand their movements.
A hungry seagull dyed its plumage a bright shade of orange after plunging into a vat of chicken curry sauce.
A video of a dolphin rescue is going viral.
It's an arachnophobic's worst nightmare. As the flood emergency continues to grip parts of Tasmania, millions of tiny spiders have evacuated their waterlogged nests and burrows and taken refuge in the trees in the town of Westbury, near Launceston.
Underwater photographer Tim Samuel was in search of sea turtles when he encountered the most bizarre pairing he'd ever seen in his life.
Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium's elderly Bengal tiger, Bakkar has died.
The mother of a three-year-old boy who tumbled into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month won't face criminal charges in the wake of the incident, a prosecutor in Ohio said Monday.
The gorilla shot and killed after a four-year-old child broke into his zoo enclosure will live on - albeit in an unrecognisable and frozen form.
The RSPCA has welcomed a planned federal government ban on cosmetic products that have been tested on live animals, set to be in place from next year.
Biddy's injuries had to be treated in an antiseptic bath.
The cub gave a loud cry before being scooped up into his mother's mouth.