Just like companies who make food for human consumption, dog food makers have to be held to the highest possible standards to ensure that their products don’t cause illness or, heaven forbid, death. Australian pet food manufacturer Advance Pet is dealing with some serious fallout after seemingly coming up short in that regard, and after …
It was just a couple of weeks ago that researchers revealed the extent to which mankind has messed up the ocean’s coral reefs. It was an incredibly dire report that pointed to rising ocean temps causing a “bleaching” effect which has destroyed massive sections of reef which may never be able to actually recover. Now, …
The red handfish is one of nature’s real treats. It’s a strange little bottom-dwelling fish that actually prefers to crawl along the sea floor rather than swimming, and it also happens to look like something you’d see in a Pokemon game. Unfortunately, the creature is incredibly rare. It has a status of “critically endangered” and …
We all learned back in geography class that what we see as present-day continents were once a big mashup of land that broke off into different chunks, collided with others, and eventually formed the world as we know it. Still, there are some quirks about continental drift that we’re still learning, and new research from …
A video of a drone being used to save two swimmers caught in rough surf off Australia’s Far North Coast has gone viral for all the right reasons. It’s one of the purest and most sensible applications of drone technology discovered to date, and it’s certain to open people’s eyes to the value of drones …
It’s obviously not often that scientists get good news regarding regionally extinct creatures. Once an animal has been seemingly wiped from its natural home, the window of opportunity for saving it in its natural habitat has pretty much gone out the window. Now, one tiny marsupial in Australia is bucking that trend, remerging after a …
Earth lost a truly unique species when Benjamin, the last known thylacine — commonly called the Tasmanian tiger — died in captivity in early September of 1936. Despite an impressive number of alleged sightings of the animal in the years since, no actual documented examples of the species have been found in the wild for …
Australia is a weird place. Because of its location and that fact that life there has evolved in a vacuum — isolated from much of the rest of the world since the breakup up of the continents — many species that have lived and died there over millions of years have no equal anywhere else …
Scientists studying hard-to-find endangered species are often left with a difficult choice when it comes to locating specimens to research. They can attempt to find the animals themselves, spending hours, days, or even weeks on what can sometimes be a fruitless endeavor, or they can set traps, which are more efficient but can harm or …
It doesn’t matter how hard of a worker you are or how much you adore your job, sometimes we all just need a day off. A 60-year-old electrician in Australia doesn’t seem to have liked his job all that much, and time off seemed like a great idea. But he still needed those pesky paychecks, …
