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The baby pygmy marmoset stolen from a Helensburgh wildlife park has been found, but Gomez and Sophia are still missing.

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The baby pygmy marmoset stolen from a Helensburgh wildlife park has been found, but Gomez and Sophia are still missing.

A fledging of the rare night parrot, thought extinct for nearly 100 years, has been photographed for the first time.

Researchers say adopting daylight saving time in south-east Queensland could save the declining koala population.

ANU researchers raised a huge $70,000 in less than two days to help with their desperate efforts to save Australia's most endangered bird.

We're not the only ones who can wear rose-coloured glasses. Little pink pigs can as well.

"I stopped to turn my bike around and went a bit closer towards them to try and get a photo and one started running for me."

A Queensland bird expert believes he may have witnessed the start of an evolutionary change in the nesting behaviours of crows after one pair's "terrible attempt" outside his office.

A man has attempted to throw a net over Premier Mike Baird as tensions boiled over in Ballina after the installation of the first shark nets in the region.

Rudolph can't catch a break as 20,000 reindeer succumb to famine in November 2006 on top of the 60,000 killed two years ago.

Frog calls that greeted researchers after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires were robust in number. But genetic testing has revealed they are alarmingly limited in diversity, catching researchers on the hop.

Pizza, whose fate as an air-conditioned exhibit for shoppers in a mall in southern China, is moving but perhaps only temporarily.

When kitty Rufus was rescued by the RSCPA, he suffered from a tummy bug, the cat flu and severe hydration.

A pregnant Baw Baw frog, found high on a muddy mountaintop could be the key to a successful captive breeding program for the seriously endangered animal.

A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country's most prized lion by an American dentist, his lawyer said on Friday.

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."