Bogong moths aren't just a marauding horde invading our houses, hot water systems and halls of power - they are a superfood that tastes a little like "charred pork fat".

A couple's stay on Crown land at Lake Pamamaroo has lasted 11 years. Now they are being threatened with eviction.

Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo has trumpeted its credentials as a conservation centre by announcing the birth of its first Asian elephant calf.

Steve Young said he wasn't afraid the snake would bite him because it had its mouth full.

The walls of Kathy Holmes' house on Lake Menindee are moving with thousands of wolf spiders as a torrent of water thunders into the lake.

Firefighters have pulled a dog alive from the rubble of Italy's strongest earthquake in decades and salvaged religious statues and paintings from churches that crumbled in Sunday's tremor.

This snake is a freak. It boasts the largest venom glands in the world. It eats king cobras for breakfast. And it has a scorpion's sting. But that's not what has scientists excited.

Jacquelyn has spent most of her life avoiding what she fears.

The lifespan of the common swift means that the accumulated flight distance of a bird is equal to seven journeys to the moon and back.

Extremely rare brush-tailed rock wallabies are being given second chance at Tidbinbilla.

'The currawong would not give up – it kept flying around the goanna and hassling it.'

In a shopping mall in southern China, a polar bear named Pizza paces past murals of icebergs in his glass enclosure.

A man has checked himself in to hospital in Byron after another shark bite off the coast of far northern NSW.

The baby Rosenberg's monitors will grow to 1.5 metres in length.

"There's definitely more this year than last year."

The time between dusk and dawn is when Australia's favourite marsupial comes out to play. But sadly, for some kangaroos, this venture into the open can lead to death.

Vulnerable wildlife could be leased to landowners under conservation proposal.

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A record 71,142 deer were shot and killed in Victoria last year, a jump of more than 14 per cent on the previous year.

Australian researchers have discovered that peptides contained in the milk of Tasmanian devils can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections, including golden staph.

A potentially dangerous incident involving an escaped gorilla has ``concluded'' at the London Zoo, police say.

A team of researchers scours the wilds of northern Alaska for a big bee that has adapted to the cold and that can teach them more about the effects of climate change.

A walk in the park with an author and her pet also gives insight as to why canines avidly sniff things like toes, rears and corpses.

Premier's office will not deny reports but describe them as "speculation".

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As Premier Mike Baird prepares what some senior MPs expect to be a change to the government's historic greyhound racing ban, the state government is continuing several inquiries into explosive allegations of mass graves and corruption linked to the sport.

A new study finds that great apes show some key abilities to see the world from someone else's point of view - a trait that once was considered uniquely human.

As far as congregations go, there would be few as unquestioning as this one.

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In the Facebook video that he claimed to have shot, Todd Orr's face was covered in blood. "Yeah, life sucks in bear country," the 50-year-old said.

The United Nations has called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a frequent sight in the reserve.

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Today presents an opportunity for humanity as a whole to reflect on the relationship we have with the animal kingdom.