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Animal Facebook helps homeless pets

Orphan dogs, cats and rabbits have been given their own Facebook profiles to help them find a home.

Dugongs are being hunted for an illegal meat trade in Queensland’s far north, says a shadow cabinet minister.

Traditionally thought of as “second-rate mammals”, marsupial carnivores were remarkably diverse, says a new study.

Like humans, cows use the each side of their brains for different functions, such as perceiving possible threats.

The discovery of a 20-million-year-old fossil suggests marsupial moles evolved in rainforests, not deserts.

Just like us whales get sunburned – and the problem is increasing, according to a new study.

A plague of locusts of a kind not normally found so far south is descending on the central west of New South Wales.

AG editor Ian Connellan chats about an important program to save endangered bilbies.

Dolphin mums are better at raising offspring when they have a little help from their experienced friends.

Lambs who bleat soon after birth are more likely to lead a long and healthy life, say scientists.