1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (814+ words) July 19, 2026 — 1:50pm To some, it’s just annoying, but to others, it marks the chilling call of the world’s deadliest creature: the buzz of a mosquito. In an effort to slash the extraordinary death toll wreaked by the insects, a University of…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (483+ words) July 19, 2026 — 5:00am Despite their vicious nature, Taryn-Lee Perrior says bull sharks are pretty easy to manhandle. All you have to do is pop a bit of eel on the end of drum line, wait for the animal to tire out, drag…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (636+ words) July 18, 2026 — 9:30am This is a story about changing yourself. George Bernard Shaw said, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” We live in a time, seemingly, of deepening entrenchment. If Shaw was right, this rigidity is not strength but…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (455+ words) We’re approaching the danger point. As winter gives way to spring, every Australian starts looking up, warily cataloguing flashes of black and white among the branches of trees. To add ironic insult to gnarly injury, this happened at Victoria Park…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1035+ words) July 14, 2026 — 7:45pm How has unleashing an army of dung beetles changed our lives? “Well, we can have barbecues in summer,” says Professor Nigel Andrew, an entomologist from Southern Cross University. These introduced masters of manure have utterly transformed Australian life by…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1771+ words) An extraordinary hotbed of behaviours, dramas, invention and song has been unearthed as the humpback population roars back from the brink. by Angus Dalton and Visual Stories Team As we watch the whales, the whales watch us. Humpbacks are renowned…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (993+ words) July 4, 2026 — 4:41pm The 500 personnel scouring the state’s beaches for seabirds sick with deadly H5 bird flu are racing against nature’s scavengers, the dingoes, gulls or sea eagles that may serve as the crucial link between sick washed-up seabirds and widespread wildlife disaster....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (225+ words) July 2, 2026 — 7:15pm A whale tangled in fishing nets has been rescued from waters off the Gold Coast. The humpback whale became tangled in commercial fishing gear, consisting of ropes and spanner crab pots, on Thursday. The fishermen alerted the Sea World…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (609+ words) July 2, 2026 — 3:45pm Miami: A handyman in Colorado was thirsty while working on a deck at a residence last week when he ventured to his truck for some water. He found a startling stowaway. “I opened the door and saw the bear…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (56+ words) A dog owner has been reunited with his poodle after he was taken in a carjacking, driven more than 50 kilometres and dumped. Updated June 30, 2026 — 7:43pm,first published 7:39pm...