Wildlife
Australia’s deadly and mysterious taipan
It’s 1.5m, deadly and probably not that rare. How did the western desert taipan lay low for 200 years?
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Wildlife
From extinct to 13,000 hatchlings
Once classified as extinct, the Lord Howe Island stick insect is now thriving in captive breeding – but more work is needed before they are no longer critically endangered.
Wildlife
The little Aussie mouse surviving against all odds
Researchers once worried the native smoky mouse was at threat of local extinction, but the population of these tiny troopers persists.
Wildlife
Rare seahorse birth footage
Researchers have captured the first-ever recording of a seahorse giving birth in the wild.
Wildlife
Reader video: Cicada shedding
AG reader Ally Wilson spent hours capturing this footage of a cicada shedding its exoskeleton.
Wildlife
VIDEO: Raising joeys
Every hour in Australia carers around the country are helping rear orphaned wildlife, from kangaroos to koalas, wombats to quolls.
Wildlife
Raising Eddie the puggle
Meet Eddie, the orphaned baby echidna that Tim Faulkner, AG’s 2015 Conservationist of the Year, is hand rearing at home.
Wildlife
Land of white cockroaches
Imagine if cockroaches invaded your kitchen, and then ate it up. That’s not a far-fetched scenario, given recent evidence that termites are really tiny social cockroaches.
Wildlife
VIDEO: Meet Queensland’s “roo lady”
Meet “the roo lady”, who cares for orphaned kangaroos in her outback Queensland backyard.
Wildlife
The numbats’ last stand
A group of numbat lovers has come to the rare marsupial’s rescue in a pocket of south-western WA.