When it comes to the security and safety of your home, controlling the issue of pests is top priority. In areas that are prone to invasive species, such as cane toads, iguanas and bufo toads… Read More

Biological invasions refer to the introduction and spread of species outside their native habitats, often leading to significant ecological, economic, and sometimes social consequences. The… Read More

Exploring the Efficiency of AI-Driven Tools in Invasive Species Detection and Management Invasive species pose a significant threat to biodiversity, causing serious harm to ecosystems and ec… Read More

Australia has a truly excruciating record with beating invasive species. Cane toads, Crown of Thorns starfish, you name it; Australian biosecurity isn’t something we can take for gr… Read More

The Froggies are a courting... (and keeping us up at night).It is rainy season and for the last few day we have had heavy rain squalls from two low pressure areas and now we are reading a th… Read More

Ecosystem interactions are integral to the functioning and balance of natural communities. These can range from predator-prey relationships, which regulate population sizes, to mutualistic… Read More

Evolution is a complex process that happens over generations, as organisms adapt to their environments and develop new characteristics that aid in their survival and reproduction. These ada… Read More

Baby hellbender salamanders don’t stand a chance against their fathers who have gone rogue and started cannibalizing their offspring. For the past eight years, scientists from Virgi… Read More

Conversations about my book often come around to the question of: ‘What to do about introduced species?’ (especially in Australia). Or, about the benefits (or otherwise) of tree… Read More

The albino bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) I captured in the Otways. Credit: Darcy Watchorn. Discoveries of albino animals have a unique ability to capture the public imagin… Read More

                    The portly cane toad is likely a record breaker, weighing in at a whopping 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms). (Image cr… Read More

A tiny endangered marsupial is dying for sex. The male northern colt — a carnivorous mammal. About the size of a small domestic cat — walks so far in his desperate search for a f… Read More

Reptile intelligence has long been considered inferior to that of birds and mammals. But recent studies in reptile cognition show reptiles have a profound understanding of their environment… Read More

Rosie Moore, 26, mainly works with fearsome reptiles and sharks - and often takes shocking risks for her 63,000 Instagram followers. The Florida Atlantic University graduate shared a clip of… Read More

Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur has spent the final twenty years photographing animals enduring ache whereas getting used for meals, leisure, trend, experimentation, work, or spiritual cerem… Read More

A review of decades of research revealed more than a dozen kinds of animals in addition to slugs and snails have caused rat lungworm disease in people around the world. Researchers from th… Read More

Many psychedelics are available in nature, from fungi like magic mushrooms (psilocybin) to ayahuasca and San Pedro cactus. There is also a creature that produces the psychedelics naturally… Read More

La Niña is here, again. Rain lashed parts of the east coast again on Thursday’s public holiday, and on Friday morning residents of northern New South Wales and southern Queen… Read More

 Yes we still have cases of Covid here, and the gov't says that school kids will need boostersBut the real problem is Dengue Fever: spread by mosquitoes.from the StraitsTimes(Bloomburg)… Read More

After months of planning, you finally feel ready for your big move. Australia and its warm climate, friendly people, and black swans are calling to you, and you can’t wait to bring you… Read More

The way gene drives work sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but they are already being used in laboratory tests. It is complicated stuff, but here is a simple explanation… Read More

Fungi that live on plant roots can help with the uptake of nutrients. Credit: Shutterstock Invasive, alien species are bad for ecosystems. They reduce bidoversity and d… Read More

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Paul Mock filmed the toads riding the python after a thunderstorm in Kununurra, Western Australia.from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2SvOY5y Read More