Animals
Drivers stunned as giraffe pokes its head from back of truck on busy highway
It seemed like a tall tale at first: reports of a giraffe heading down a busy highway just south of Sydney on Wednesday morning.
- by Olivia Ireland
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Life on Mars? This tiny South American mouse might hold the answer
Mummified mice found on mountain summits on the Chile-Argentina border have re-defined what we know about the limits of mammals – and they may help the search for life on other planets.
- by Angus Dalton
Sydney park cleans up with prestigious award
Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.
- by Julie Power
Amid a surge in grizzly attacks, one US state is at the centre of a grand experiment
Bear numbers have come back but much of their territory is crisscrossed with roads and crowded with people.
- by Jim Robbins
Play time: Whales enjoy ‘kelping’ or playing with seaweed, study says
The humpbacks, grey, southern rights and a northern right were spotted throwing, lifting, swimming through seaweed, even wrapping it around their own fins.
- by Erin Blakemore
US Customs officials seize giraffe faeces at airport
An Iowa woman wanted to use droppings she found on a trip to Kenya to make a necklace.
‘Stealth bombers’: Why swooping season is getting worse
We’re in the thick of swooping season – here’s how busting magpie myths can help you avoid the suburban stealth bombers.
- by Angus Dalton
A cat called Luna: The most popular pet names in Australia
Popular culture, what parents call their (human) children and other factors are shaping what people choose to name their dogs and cats.
- by Craig Butt
Soaring water temperatures suspected in death of 100 pink dolphins
Thousands of fish have also died in the Amazon, where water temperatures reached 38 degrees on Sunday.
- by Mauricio Savarese
Fowl play: Who’s poisoning brush turkeys on Sydney’s lower north shore?
A Mosman resident found brush turkeys “convulsing” outside her home and firefighters discovered suspected pellet bait scattered across nearby Allan Border Oval.
- by Sarah Keoghan and Olivia Ireland
Perth woman seriously injured, dog shot in home mauling
A woman has been seriously injured and a dog shot by police after she was attacked by her two pet Rottweilers at her home in Perth’s south.
- by Alex Condon