A herculean effort is under way to save the world's last population of a critically endangered fish found only in the middle of Queensland's most arid country.

Dachshunds dressed in harvest-themed attire roamed among the gourmet market stalls at the Bungendore Harvest Festival.

University of Canberra scientists are harnessing mobile phones to tap into frogs' conversations.

He was healthy before the flight, the rabbit's breeder says.

A Kiama drone operator has told of his urgent efforts to raise the alarm after a shark made an unexpected appearance in his video, coming disturbingly close to unaware surfers.

A bull shark caught off Swansea at Lake Macquarie has stirred up a social media storm, with a photo of the enormous aquatic predator quickly gaining notoriety.

Authorities closed the beach to swimming as crowds gathered on the sand to watch sharks hunt the schools of mullet.

Naked mole rats are marvellous and bizarre mammals; they don't get tumours, they live like social insects and are "cold-blooded" like frogs. And that's just for starters.

Attendance at SeaWorld Entertainment's theme parks has been falling amid negative publicity and criticism from animal rights activists upset by the treatment of captive marine mammals.

There was one slippery customer on board a train south of Sydney overnight.

Biochemists' discovery sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

After months of care, almost 60 turtle hatchlings have been escorted away from danger and released into safe waters.

They craft and create webs every day, but the spiders in Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island, probably weren't expecting to go viral on the internet.

A man from Sydney's south has captured a freshwater crocodile on a riverbank during an afternoon stroll.

Move over Chris the sheep, you might have some competition from Fred and George.

However, dog meat is still consumed widely in many Asian countries, specifically China, South Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines and northern India.

At long last, April the giraffe gave birth on Saturday to a long-overdue calf as more than a million people around the world watched live.

Greenseas is under fire for selling tuna that's been caught using a destructive method.

Platypus, native water rats and other species are being killed by illegal traps left in Canberra's lakes.

About 7000 years ago, gentoo penguins first came to Ardley Island in the South Shetlands chain just off the Antarctic Peninsula.

By snapping its enlarged claw shut at rapid speed, the shrimp creates a high-pressure bubble that collapses to produce one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.

Wildlife authorities are investigating an apparent case of animal cruelty in Albury, with three platypuses found dead in the botanic gardens.

Authorities are searching for poachers who killed a rare one-horned rhinoceros in the forests of southern Nepal and cut off the horn.

Try having no arms and eating a live octopus that's crawling around on your head with its tentacles.

Paul Gallen has been making a right nuisance of himself down in Cronulla over the past two weeks.

The three-month old bilbys are the first set of triplets the Ipswich Nature Centre has ever had.

Meet Charlie, the much-loved family pet who is now safely home after a near-death encounter with trains on the Illawarra line.

Scientists reviewing video from camera traps watched dumbfounded as a seven kilogram badger worked four days to bury a 22-kilogram calf carcass.

Want to meet an alien? Diving with an octopus is the closest you're likely to come.

Increasing numbers of exotic snakes, many poisonous, are slipping unseen into Australia by plane, ship and the mail, prompting a new plan to stop more coming before they threaten native flora and fauna.