Ground 'Moves' as Cane Toads Invade Australia Park
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Hundreds of thousands of poisonous baby cane toads invaded an Australian national park on Friday, hopping around in such numbers that the ground seemed to move, an ecologist said.
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A giant 100km colony of ants  which has been discovered in Melbourne, Australia, could threaten local insect species.
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MELBOURNE -- It was a sickening sound to 20 million pairs of Australian ears -- a "thwack!" that was heard from Sydney to Perth, the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania at 9:49 last night in Rod Laver Arena.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Police discovered scores of reptiles, including deadly snakes and three crocodiles, in a suburban Sydney home, officials said Saturday.    David O'Shannessy of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said his staff found three baby crocodiles, and snakes including death adders, taipans, red bellied black snakes and pythons among more than 100 animals in the house...
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Koalas are considered in danger of extinction in parts of Australia, but in one southern state authorities plan to implant 2,000 of the furry marsupials with contraceptives to control their numbers.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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The cane toad is growing so big and hopping so rapidly into new territory that they are developing severe arthritis.
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Environmental groups call on Australia to classify the Coral Sea as a marine park to ward off illegal shark fishermen.
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Defense Department plans to shoot 3,200 kangaroos on the outskirts of Australia's capital have been derailed by police fears about the risk posed to humans, an official said Friday.
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Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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The front line of Australia&#39;s war on terror continues to be fought on Indonesian soil. Last week&#39;s bomb blast outside
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Gaborone - The outbreak of anthrax in Botswana&#39;s Chobe National Park had claimed the lives of 265 animals, but was now subsiding, an assistant director in the Department of Wildlife said on Friday.
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THE Australian team has arrived in the lush southern city of Bangalore for tomorrow&#39;s first Test to be greeted by a pitch that is as cracked and dry as a Coober Pedy waterhole in a drought.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--COLONIE -- The electronic marquee outside a Wolf Road hotel Wednesday looked like something from the sci-fi double feature at a 1950s drive-in: Invasive Plants.
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Swarms of Asian lady bugs, introduced in this country to control pests, have themselves become a nuisance on golf courses and in homes and gardens around Texas.
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Police say they're sure they shot a four-foot-long, 80-pound monitor lizard that had been lurking in an Orlando suburb for months. Still, neighbors aren't ready to let their children or pets back outside until they see a carcass.
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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.