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We travel across the world to rank each continent by its deadliest snakes, not by venom alone, but by how many human lives they actually claim. While some of the most toxic species rarely bite people, ...

South Australia’s koala population has grown so large that it may be heading toward a self-made disaster, with forests struggling to support the animals. Researchers say targeted fertility control ...

Professor Keith Chappell, a co-developer of the Molecular Clamp vaccine technology created to defeat Covid, blew the whistle on the problems, forcing scientists at Queensland’s University of the ...

Queensland’s deputy premier has defended his decision to allow a bayside private school to clear bushland for new sport fields, a day after GPS tracked another koala entering the area, which was ...

An analysis of 11,862 koala rescue admissions to NSW animal hospitals found the marsupials were more likely to die when the seven-day average maximum temperature was greater than 27 degrees Celsius.

After a decade helping rescue koalas from bushfires and other disasters, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March Australia’s most famous koala-sniffing dog – who has helped save endangered ...

The deputy premier has given a private school in Brisbane’s east the green light to cut down koala habitat for sporting ovals after the plan was knocked back by the local council. Redland City Council ...

Beyond the kangaroos, wallabies and emus, Australia is famed for its iconic, seemingly cuddly koalas, even though the marsupials live only on the continent’s eastern and southeastern coasts. About ...

Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA's regionally extinct species was its own distinctive ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Australia was once home to a second species of koala that lived only in the west of the continent, where it became extinct around 30,000 years ago. Today, there is only one koala species: ...