2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (455+ words) A case of bird flu has been detected in an Australian sea lion for the first time, raising concerns for the species' already dwindling population. A sea lion at South Australia's Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island tested positive for the…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago   (170+ words) What’s happening this week Local shops and markets Your home in Lanzarote Getting around the island Sand, sun and sea Art and Canarian tradition Film festivals and events Stories from the island A Barbary ground squirrel in Lanzarote is grounds…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (862+ words) As a veterinarian who studies infectious diseases in cats, I’ve been repeatedly asked whether Australia’s outbreak of the H5 bird flu poses a risk to pets. The short answer is yes. As this lethal virus continues to infect more mammals, poultry…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (32+ words) Mazu¹ and his student Baizhang² were walking together when a flock of wild ducks passed overhead …...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (599+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....

11+ hour, 15+ min ago   (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...

1+ day, 58+ min ago   (314+ words) Whaling ‌in Iceland has sparked years of protests from animal welfare campaigners and Hollywood celebrities. Copenhagen: Iceland's government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the ​only two…...

21+ hour, 29+ min ago   (252+ words) The number of bluetongue cases since the first of July in the UK has now topped a thousand. That’s nearly three times the number of positive cases for the whole of the previous year to that date. How are farmers…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (478+ words) An aggressive predatory flatworm introduced to Pacific islands during the 1990s to control agricultural pests has pushed native land snail species toward extinction, turning a planned biological control program into an ecological disaster. The New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari) was brought…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (401+ words) The giant fake shark has been branded 'very offensive' A towering 9.5-metre fibreglass shark on a crazy golf course has sparked a planning dispute - after complaints it unfairly portrayed the species as "criminals". Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf installed the eye-catching…...