When authorities fight fires, they focus on human life and property. But animals are part of communities too – and disaster ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline.

Experimental fungi and ‘robotic bees’ are among the ag-tech innovations being trialled in a country on the frontline of ...

Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city ... and evolution figured out because it’s such a charismatic animal, but it just ...

Australians are famous for our laid-back attitude. But even so, one beach going expat couldn't quite believe what she was seeing.

Sydney-born Adam Speering moved to Singapore with his family in 2015 — he tells 8days.sg why he set up a wet market butchery ...

A man will face court after allegedly capturing and injuring native birds in Sydney’s eastern suburbs by putting them in a ...

A children’s daycare center in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, was torched on Tuesday ... It breaks your heart that we have animals in our city that are prepared to burn down a ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural ...