Scientists worry we're experiencing a sixth mass extinction, but sea turtles may be an exception, a new study says.

A koala has been released back into the wild after miraculously surviving a 16 kilometre trip clinging onto the underside of a car wheel arch.

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.

New species of spider named after the Sapphire Coast.

When meerkats want to move as a group, they call to each other. Capuchin monkeys trill. Gorillas grunt. Honeybees make what is called a piping sound.

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

Beneath the waves of Nelson Bay this weekend a band of divers will search the seabed on a now-familiar neon Easter egg hunt for the 15th Sea Slug Census.

Snake habitats are being reduced by urban development - and finding their way into suburban courtyards.

One of the state's healthiest koala colonies - and the last holdout of the animal in the Sydney region - is facing an increased threat

With no Noah's Ark to ferry these animals away, they're showing up in some unusual spots.

The billionaires have joined other business giants backing a start-up that makes meat from self-producing animal cells.

Although the gift may have seemed like an appropriate gesture, it has been criticised by animal rights campaigners.

There's more to protecting yourself than wearing an ice cream bucket on your head.

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

​The world's largest nesting spot for endangered green sea turtles will be made over to stop baby turtles drowning and adults dying from heat exhaustion.

A new generation of poultry breeders is reviving interest a dying art as age-old practices raises animal cruelty concerns.

Chickens have helped Mark Killen change the way he lives. They have made the grass greener, both on his property and in the way he has viewed his world as a farmer.

Papua New Guinea may be one of the last refuges for amphibians as a fungal disease decimates populations worldwide, a Queensland academic believes.

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More than 25 million hens, plus millions of male chicks, are used by the Australian egg industry every year.

KISS frontman Gene Simmons is thrilled by a newborn calf born with strikingly similar black-and-white markings to the face paint he wears on stage.

More than 200 sheep have died after they hurtled over the edge of a cliff in the French Pyrenees.

The BBC reports the arachnid was the "size of a guinea pig", causing one of the men to flee in fright.

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

Officials said Xanda, who was 6 and had several cubs, was shot several days ago by a trophy hunter.

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.

Incredible video has emerged of an elephant being rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy, 16 kilometres off the Sri Lankan coast.

Plants can't run or hide, but they have powerful ways to alter the minds of herbivores that try to eat them.