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Mountain pygmy possum gets 'bogong biscuit' out of a feeding container made from mesh and pipes in a Kosciusko National Park boulder field. Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds ...

Six of the possums were found abandoned in a cardboard box and are now being cared for by Five Sister Zoo in West Lothian.

"It was one of the biggest huntsman spiders he'd ever seen," Justine Latton said of her husband Adam, who witnessed the incident A man staying at a ski lodge in Tasmania, Australia had the scare ...

The Buruli ulcer, a bacterial infection that eats away at skin tissue, affected more than 350 people in Victoria last year.