The platypus isn’t just strange, it’s one of the most scientifically baffling animals on Earth. With the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the feet of an otter, and the ability to lay eggs, this ...

September 25, 2024 (Sacramento, CA) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom signed tighter rat poison restrictions into law today, expanding an existing moratorium to include all blood-thinning rat poisons ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a source of scientific mystery. The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird ...

Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit ...

Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host ...

NSW has the highest proportion of residents with cancer-causing PFAS chemicals - news which coincides with revelations that ...

Beavers now swim in a wetland in London for the first time in 400 years, platypuses are once again breeding in Sydney's Royal National Park and hornbills fly amid Singaporean skyscrapers.

Four youths, who lost their eyes during the July uprising, and are currently undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology in Dhaka, have attempted to die by suicide by consuming ...

The platypus is a bizarre and fascinating creature ... Despite being a mammal, it produces venom and uses electroreception to detect prey underwater. Elon Musk and Rand Paul appear to join forces ...

A man who swallowed cyanide as he was being arrested for domestic violence had bought the poison online after a chemical supplier failed to check his background properly. It took Phillip Reidy ...