Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

It's often easy to forget that wild animals occupied the land we live on well before humans started putting up houses. And every once in a while, those animals like to remind us that just because it's ...

These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.

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At Anna Creek Station, a lean crew manages thousands of cattle across arid land where rainfall averages just 140 mm a year.

Returning rescued slow lorises to the wild may sound like a conservation success, but a new study shows it can turn deadly.

When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an ...

Smithsonian researchers in Panama have begun to reintroduce native golden frogs to the wild in special enclosures ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...

Honeybees collecting nectar from a ‘buffet’ of Australian native plants made honey with anti-microbial abilities that is more potent than ‘single origin’ honey made from only one source of plant or ...

For this Australian shepherd, the standard "begging" playbook wasn't getting the job done. When her owner told her "no" to a tasty snack from the human food, this dramatic pup didn't just huff and ...

A rescue team from Australian Reptile Park successfully captured a freshwater crocodile found swimming hundreds of miles south of its usual range.