A Chinese national who attempted to smuggle nearly 100 native Australian reptiles overseas has been sentenced in Sydney, with authorities warning that wildlife trafficking will "not be tolerated." ...

With electrodes imbedded in its cortex, a rat in a research institute in Natal, Brazil sent signals via the internet to a counterpart at a university lab in Durham, North Carolina, helping the second ...

APVMA has again delayed the release of a draft decision on the regulation of readily-accessible rodenticides. Research earlier this year found rodenticides in endangered quoll populations from ...

Five people were hospitalised last week prompting fears they were poisoned from contaminated fast food. The cluster of patients turned up at Logan and Princess Alexandra hospitals with common symptoms ...

Police are investigating multiple rat poisoning incidents in Brisbane after health authorities revealed no links to food outlets. Five people were hospitalised last week prompting fears they were ...

Health authorities and police are investigating a spate of rat poisonings with no known links to food outlets. Five people were hospitalised last week prompting fears they were poisoned from ...

Queensland Health said it had launched an investigation into a fast food outlet in Logan, in Brisbane’s south, where the meals were believed to have been purchased. The patients presented themselves ...

Queensland Health is investigating after five people were hospitalised with symptoms of ingesting rat poison in the state's south-east. Chief Health Officer Catherine McDougall said authorities were ...

A recent study of drinking water across Greater Sydney, Australia’s most populous city, by scientists at the University of NSW (UNSW) detected widespread contamination with toxic PFAS (per- and ...

One of the most dangerous microorganisms on Earth, Naegleria fowleri has a well-earned nickname as the "brain-eating amoeba," because of the almost 100% fatal infection it causes. And it's now been ...