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| UpdatedWhile endangered green turtle hatchlings have more than doubled on Queensland's remote Raine Island, scientists are still working to help the species in its battle against rising sea levels and overcrowding.
Topics: human-interest, animals, environment, conservation, animal-science, science-and-technology, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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The race is on to save the critically endangered native Australian orange-bellied parrot as its population reaches the lowest levels ever seen.
Topics: birds, conservation, animal-science, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA Queensland scientist finds a new species of ant-eating spider and names it after a chance meeting with a new friend on Gumtree.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, animals, environment, human-interest, brisbane-4000, lord-howe-island-2898
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A new pod of 240 whales has beached itself on a remote New Zealand beach just hours after weary volunteers managed to re-float a different group of whales following an earlier mass stranding.
Topics: animal-science, mammals---whales, conservation, new-zealand
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An Alice Springs man is taking advantage of a grasshopper plague, by cooking them up with a little oil and salt.
Topics: animal-science, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, alice-springs-0870
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Arthur White and the Frog and Tadpole Study Group of NSW have been saving frogs lost in farming produce far from home.
Topics: amphibians, animal-science, science-and-technology, animal-attacks, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedEcologists once protected a bird habitat from fire, but have discovered the species can thrive in recently-burnt vegetation.
Topics: birds, bushfire, animal-science, environmental-management, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Perth Zoo introduces a spikey new addition to its family — but four months after the short-beaked echidna's entry into the world, it remains a mystery whether it is a male or a female.
Topics: zoos, animal-science, animals, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA green and red Tasmanian slug is the latest animal to be named after naturalist David Attenborough, who was honoured today as a lifetime patron of the Australian Museum.
Topics: science-and-technology, environment, human-interest, animals, biology, animal-science, earth-sciences, offbeat, tas, united-kingdom, australia
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Topics: fish, animal-science, science-and-technology, science, water-management, environment, bundaberg-4670, maryborough-4650, gympie-4570
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| UpdatedGranddad — an Australian lungfish aged in its mid-90s that was the longest-living fish in captivity — is euthanased after more than 80 years at a Chicago aquarium.
Topics: fish, animal-science, animals, human-interest, zoos, united-states, bundaberg-4670, australia
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Cicada numbers are steady in Tasmania but they could boom in a couple of years thanks to a wet winter last year.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, earth-sciences, human-interest, launceston-7250
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The call of the night parrot.
Topics: birds, animal-science, sa, australia, qld
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| UpdatedThe Threatened Species Commissioner is urging Australians to put down celebrity magazines and instead look out for the rare night parrot.
Topics: birds, animal-science, sa, australia, qld
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Vets at Adelaide Zoo believe it would have been near impossible to save Sumatran orangutan Karta, who died last week after delivering a stillborn infant.
Topics: animals, human-interest, zoos, animal-science, zoology, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAdelaide Zoo's 34-year-old Sumatran orangutan dies just hours after delivering an infant that was believed to be stillborn, after six other unsuccessful pregnancies in two decades.
Topics: zoology, zoos, animal-science, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe rufous fantail was wiped out on Guam by an introduced snake species. Now researchers are trying to future-proof the species here in Australia.
Topics: birds, animal-science, conservation, environment, rain-forests-and-forest, iluka-2466, guam
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| UpdatedIt may be possible one day to grow human organs inside other animals for use in transplants, with scientists hailing the successful creation of the first human-pig hybrid embryo.
Topics: science-and-technology, animal-science, breakthroughs, medical-research, health, research, research-organisations, united-states, australia, spain
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| UpdatedNo summer barbecue would be complete without the great Aussie salute of waving away a fly. Sure it's a nuisance, but the Australian bush fly gets a bad rap.
Topics: science-and-technology, animal-science, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, australia
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Topics: marine-biology, mammals---whales, animal-science, bremer-bay-6338
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Topics: marine-biology, animal-science, mammals---whales, bremer-bay-6338
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| UpdatedWhale researchers return from their fifth expedition to Bremer Canyon, with new findings, theories and a mystery sound.
Topics: marine-biology, animal-science, mammals---whales, bremer-bay-6338
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| UpdatedA tiny lizard unique to Central Australia has been successfully bred at the Alice Springs Desert Park, with each hatchling weighing in at just 2 grams.
Topics: animal-science, science-and-technology, human-interest, animals, alice-springs-0870