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The platypus is even weirder than thought, scientists discover
AFP, Published on 19/03/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes.
Australia approves chlamydia vaccine for koalas
AFP, Published on 10/09/2025
» SYDNEY — Australian regulators have approved a chlamydia vaccine for koalas, researchers said Wednesday, as they seek to stamp out a sexually transmitted disease responsible for about half of all deaths of the fluffy marsupial in the wild.
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile
AFP, Published on 12/08/2025
» SANTIAGO - Scientists have discovered the fossil of a tiny mouse-sized mammal that lived in the time of the dinousaurs in Chilean Patagonia.
Killer whales spotted grooming each other with seaweed
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» PARIS - Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced on Monday, saying it was the first evidence of marine mammals making their own tools.
130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under scalpel
AFP, Published on 04/04/2025
» YAKUTSK — Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
AFP, Published on 14/03/2025
» TāPLEJUNG — Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.
Grandma chimps offer clues for evolution of menopause in humans
AFP, Published on 27/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - Humans and some whales are the only known species in which females live long after they stop being able to reproduce.
Heaviest animal ever? Scientists discover massive ancient whale
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» LIMA - Look out, blue whale -- there's a new contender for your heavyweight title.
Rescuers 'optimistic' for surviving stranded whales in Australia
AFP, Published on 26/07/2023
» SYDNEY: More than 50 pilot whales died after stranding themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but authorities said Wednesday they were "optimistic" that the other 45 whales in the pod could survive.
Marine animal poisonings overwhelm California volunteers
AFP, Published on 17/07/2023
» GAVIOTA (UNITED STATES) - Denise Christ regularly comes across injured wildlife in her work rescuing beached or stranded marine mammals along the California coast.