In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The platypus is such a strange animal that it was originally thought to be an elaborate hoax by pranksters When European ...

About 700 people and their pets packed the pews at St. John the Baptist in London's Holland Park for the annual "Carols with ...

An Australian angler spotted what he initially thought to be a massive trout and ended up capturing video of something even ...

Cody Stylianou captured video of 'Pinky' feeding at a fishing spot in Gippsland ...

Biologist says specimen filmed by a Victorian fisher is ‘unusual’, but not a rare albino as some had wondered ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ...

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The Taronga Zoo Conservation Society plans to release platypus, koalas, spotted quols, and the Endangered regent honeyeater ...