The first camera survey ever conducted on Truwana/Cape Barren Island off Tasmania has recorded two rarely seen animals—white-footed dunnarts and blonde echidnas. A vulnerable shorebird—the Latham's ...

Wildlife cameras snap rare pictures of blond echidnas, a tiny white-footed dunnart, and threatened seabirds on a small island off Tasmania's north coast.

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

Wild animals are secretly playing a “crucial role” in mitigating human-made climate change through their natural ...

Major upgrades are underway at Maria Island, but many visitors don't want the popular Tasmanian destination to change to ...

Though cats and dogs may dominate the pet sphere worldwide, lizards, snakes and other reptiles still remain among the most popular types of exotic pets. Though they might not have the same broad ...

For weeks, the story of Punch the monkey has tugged at heartstrings around the world. Videos of this lonely baby monkey at Japan's Ichikawa Zoo have triggered global outpourings of empathy, grief and ...

Working with wild animals isn’t always picture-perfect. Behind every rescue are tough realities – injured bodies, orphaned babies, and fragile lives that wouldn’t survive without human help. For ...

Echidna. Image by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In the diverse world of animal adaptations ...

A tiny echidna puggle named Piggle has been unveiled to the public for the first time, marking a rare breeding milestone at the Australian Reptile Park. Radical Islamic group defies attempts to ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) has made an appearance despite not being recorded for 62 ...

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