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Shark was known previously mostly only via fish market samples

Box containing penguin slid off passenger’s lap during flight and hit pilot’s controls

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”.

“Out of sight, out of mind” is how we often treat what is flushed down our toilets. But the drugs we take, from anxiety medications to antibiotics, don’t simply vanish after leaving our bodies. Many are not fully removed by wastewater treatment systems and end up in rivers, lakes and…

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

Lulu Gribbin and her friend had been diving for sand dollars before the attack

Gray whales are resilient. But, Arctic sea ice loss is threatening their feeding grounds

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

ALMOST £100,000 will be spent in a bid to rid a Scottish island of “invasive” hedgehogs ...