Environmentalists and policymakers trying to avert the world's growing extinction crisis need to lower their sights from not trying to save the largest, often "charismatic" threatened species such as elephants and tigers, but also many of the smallest ones, a new research paper finds.

A villager in Kenya was herding animals recently when he came upon a head-turning sight. A ghostly creature with a mighty long neck was grazing off in the distance.

The video also shows a black bear, deer, mountain lion, and black bear cub.

China is mourning the death of the world's oldest panda, Basi, who passed away at the age of 37.

Brother and sister snow leopard kittens romped as they made their public debut at Los Angeles Zoo.

There are believed to be only around 100 white moose in Sweden.

Australia and the rest of the world must keep global temperature increases to 1.2 degrees to save the reef.

The world's first test-tube rhinos could be born from animals at a British safari park.

The shy joey has emerged from its mother's pouch at a nature refuge in south-west Queensland.

Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organisation Panthera, received an email last week from one of his group's partners in Tanzania. When he opened the attached photos, Hunter said, "My jaw just dropped."

It was meant to be a harmless selfie, designed to highlight the plight of the endangered crested black macaque.

Drinking straws, coffee cups, bait bags and releasing helium balloons need to be banned in Queensland, environmental groups argue.

Antarctica's native species are facing invasion as climate change dramatically expands the continent's ice-free zones, a new study warns.

A new report into the value of the at-threat Great Barrier Reef has been revealed the 2300 kilometre reef is too big to fail.

The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected for more than four decades. But no more.

This weekend could be the perfect time to go whale watching.

Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.

Keeping the Sydney Opera House healthy and clean is an act of love by Steve Tsoukalas​ for the "other woman" in his life. 

• SATIRE

Nationalists in the Trump administration are right. The decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord was correct.

Platypus numbers across southern Australia are dropping due to loss of habitat, traps and pollution.

Sydney's Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of a male Asian elephant.

Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed by poachers in Africa. Despite this, there is new cause for optimism.

Street smarts are the key to boosting the wild population of Tasmanian devils, scientists say.

Scientists exploring the abyss off Australia's east coast expect to see many new creatures.

The theme park made the announcement through Facebook saying the cub had died on Saturday, while the other one was doing well and bonding with its mother.

A Gold Coast theme park is celebrating after the birth of two polar bear cubs.

A six-month trial of surf nets on the state's north coast is coming to an end – with mixed results.

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.