Robot mule joins the US Marines
IT’S no Simpson’s Donkey, but an electronic mule has been tested by the United States military under battle conditions in Hawaii.
Animals
Why this photo should make you cringe
HE HAS spent his entire life in chains, works seven days a week and is not allowed to form a bond with another living being. Find it a little uncomfortable? So does he.
Is ‘lonely’ polar bear going crazy?
CAMPAIGNERS are concerned for the mental state of a polar bear in an Argentine zoo, saying he is depressed and showing signs of insanity.
Elephants ‘turned into zombies’
IT WAS the photo that brought the world to tears. But the rescue of this crying elephant was just the tip of the iceberg in a cruel slave trade.
Crying Raju meets his elephant family
RAJU the elephant, who cried when shown freedom after 50 years of slavery, has been introduced to his new family.
Mystery croc turns up in Greek lake
FORGET Nessie, Greek farmers have their own mystery lake creature – a two-metre-long crocodile clearly far from home. But how did it get there?
Why is this elephant crying?
PICTURES of an Indian elephant named Raju shedding tears have broken hearts around the world. But there’s a happy ending to the story.
Paddleboarder glides over shark
IT was a close call — almost too close. A drone has filmed the incredible moment a paddleboarder glided over a great white without even realising.
EXCLUSIVE PICS: Frantic whale rescue
EXCLUSIVE PICS: Check out Australia’s second frantic whale rescue which is under way tonight – this time on a Gold Coast beach. .
‘Oh my god, I’m going to die’
A VICTIM of a shark attack in the US has told of how he grabbed the nose of the great white as it “lunged” and “locked” into his chest.
This guy wants to do weird things with chickens
IT’S one of the last things you would expect to do with a chicken, but one university professor wants to do it.
This is bad news for vegetarians
VEGETARIANS, you probably don’t want to read this. There is new research that might just turn you off eating your greens. For good.
Tiger shark’s epic 4000km journey
A TIGER shark has been tracked on an epic journey proving West Australians aren’t the only ones opting for a getaway to Indonesia.
Check out this superhero mouse!
A MOUSE who climbs walls like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible becomes an unlikely internet sensation.
Killer army defeating Boko Haram
TERROR group Boko Haram is being flushed out of its hideouts in Nigerian forests by mystical bees and deadly snakes.
Xin Xin the panda dies in Macau
THE female half of a giant panda couple that Macau received as a gift from Beijing has died from kidney failure.
Nightmares are made of this
YOU won’t be sleeping tonight. What’s worse than your average spider? Well, ones that are capable of eating things five times their size are taking over the world.
Great white shark numbers ‘surging’
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, a new study of great white sharks shows the fearsome fish’s numbers are growing.
Cheetah cub, puppy become BFFs
IT DOESN’T get much cuter that this. Watch Ruuxa the baby cheetah befriend Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback in this heartwarming new video.
Fish feel pain, have good memories
FISH can feel pain, have excellent memories and deserve to be treated better, a biologist says.
Why we fear snakes, spiders and … moths?
WHY do certain bugs freak us out? Because we’ve been bred to fear snakes and we have an irrational aversion to spiders but we can also blame our parents.
Monkeying around gave us herpes
WHERE did the sexually transmitted disease herpes originate? A newly published study finds it was not from sleeping with other people.
Giant creature ‘back from the dead’
IT’S our underground Tassie Tiger. A giant animal thought to have died out thousands of years ago may still be digging away in a remote part of Australia.
Pig leaps off truck to save bacon
THIS pig was on the way to a slaughterhouse, before he made a death-defying jump from a moving truck to save his own bacon.
Pig leaps off truck to save bacon
THIS pig was on the way to a slaughterhouse, before he made a death-defying jump from a moving truck to save his own bacon.
GoPro shark YouTube video a fake
A YOUTUBE video of a white shark at Manly which has had more than 2m hits in 48 hours is a fake.
Runaway roo had everyone on the hop
DID you hear the one about the kangaroo that made headlines because she escaped from a farm in Canada? Hang on, Canada?
The mystery of ‘sharkzilla’
SCIENTISTS believe a huge 2.7-metre-long great white shark was eaten by an even bigger sea monster. And it happened right here in Australia …
The mystery of ‘sharkzilla’
SCIENTISTS believe a huge 2.7-metre-long great white shark was eaten by an even bigger sea monster. And it happened right here in Australia …
Seal mauls elderly walker in NZ
AN ELDERLY man has been seriously hurt after he was attacked by a seal while out walking in New Zealand.
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