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Category: Wildlife

The possum that hugs

Long bear-hugs, rotating sentinels and mothers forming bridges are just some of the unique behaviours of Australia’s elusive rock ringtail possum.

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Hidden housemates: Australia’s huge and hairy huntsman spiders

Huntsman spiders deserve a place alongside koalas and kangaroos as iconic Australian wildlife.

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Octopus video with shocking twist

The latest octopus video to take the web by storm finishes with a shocking twist.

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Australia has earned resentment overseas for something that seems very ordinary – our wattles having Acacia as their genus name. In Africa, botanists have spoken of “extreme unhappiness” and “profound outrage” over this situation.

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Welcome to croc country: telling fact from fiction

The swamps, rivers and estuaries across northern Australia are home to one of the biggest, fiercest – and perhaps most misunderstood – predators in the world. We wrestle the saltwater crocodile facts from the fiction, including how to stay safe in croc country.

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Stunning flocks of budgies in outback Australia

UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph this “tornado” of budgies around a waterhole in outback Australia.

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GALLERY: Stunning flocks of budgies in outback Australia

UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph these flocks of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) near Alice Springs.

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Here are the animals REALLY most likely to kill you in Australia

Australia is renowned for its venomous snakes, scary spiders and even painful plants – but the animals that pose the biggest risk to our lives might surprise you.