For generations of pet owners feeding bones to their dogs has seemed as natural and healthy as letting them run free across fields and meadows.

Spring is in the air, which means one thing is certain: it's magpie swooping season. 

As the greyhound racing industry lurches from one controversy to another – most significantly in New South Wales, where it will soon be banned – attention has turned to saving the animals from a deadly fate.

Those of you heading for a beach holiday this summer might want to consider doing a free online training package before taking off, it could help save a turtle's life.

A concerted effort is underway to save the endangered golden shouldered parrot of remote Cape York.

I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw it: a white fuzz ball of a baby seal, snuggling in a snowdrift. You better believe I liked it ... then I read the caption.

How Queensland's current magpie relocation program came to be.

Canberra's Anke Maria Hoefer is known for talking to frogs but she believes it is learning how to listen to them that will save the species.

We are so used to bad news about climate change it is a little hard to process this.

Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 per cent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world's biggest primate close to extinction, a Red List of endangered species shows.

A largely unknown creature, the pangolin holds the undesirable title of being the most poached and illegally trafficked mammal in the world. Scientists believe more than 1 million have been killed in the past decade.

You'd think researchers who encounter some of the nastiest diseases affecting Australian animals would want to destroy them pronto. But that's not the case.

Dogs pay attention to the meaning of words, a new study shows.

Firefighters are using fire-opitc cameras find and rescue a dog trapped inside a disused concrete power pole in Conder.

Scientists say aerial shooting best way of culling brumbies.

Birdbrains they may be. But don’t underestimate the humble chook when it comes to having an ear for music. Dem birds have rhythm.

Stockholm More than 300 wild reindeer were found dead after lightning struck a central mountain plateau in southern Norway, authorities say.

Some of Australia's leading scientists are proposing that the endangered Tasmanian devil should be reintroduced to the mainland - to Victoria's Wilson's Prom specifically - as an insurance policy.

While it's doubtful how effective he would be in actual combat, a king penguin has been made a Brigadier by the King of Norway.

It's not quite The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but the results of a study comparing the sharpness and durability of different shark teeth sawing through prey were almost as scary.

Owners want justice for dog attack that killed their poodle and injured dog walker.

The wombat may be a muddle-headed marsupial in the realm of children's literature but in real life they are anything but, a Canberra wildlife carer says.

Are Canberrans playing finders keepers with lost pets?

In photos, 12-year-old Aryanna Gourdin is pictured posing with dead wild animals – an impala, a giraffe, a zebra – she hunted and killed on a recent trip to South Africa.

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Wombats have a reputation for being cute and cuddly but a woman mauled by one in Canberra's south has warned others to stay away from the marsupials.

With two maimed front legs the American black bear manages to get around on his hind legs. His unusual condition has spawned coveted sightings and viral videos.

Meet the woman who blew the whistle on Australia's live export trade.

Scientist David Fernandez peered at the odd-looking critter,and hoped it was the real thing. He'd never seen one of these animals in its entirety before. No scientist ever had.

The video shows a black bear rummaging around a trash bin in the Canadian woods, where an American bow hunter was waiting, armed with a spear - custom-made and outfitted with a camera to capture the kill.

Fledgling little eagle's flight convinces ecologist Jerry Olsen the ACT is losing a vulnerable species.