Animals

A friend of missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer flew to Tasmania and was shown the wilderness area where where the 31-year-old disappeared a month ago, with police reporting a cadaver dog on loan from NSW has found nothing.

This year's endurance ride looks very different to the first race in 1980, but some things don't change — it's still a show of strength, grit, and horsemanship.

A mouse once presumed extinct in New South Wales has been tracked down in the west of the state, much to the surprise of ecologists.

Australia's secretive crocodile farming industry is about to go under the microscope, with the federal government reviewing the rules on how the predators can be caught, farmed and killed.

While two tourists are fined for taking their rabbit with them on an Easter trip to Kangaroo Island, a pet owner from the island has pleaded guilty over a separate incident involving two emaciated dogs, authorities say.

The Glitter Strip is well-known for its dark underbelly and criminal probes, but a different kind of investigation is underway on the Gold Coast after a fur seal was spotted on the loose in the city.

The frightened bull ran amok on the streets of Ayacucho, injuring five people. It had escaped from a local arena during an event.

A 12-month-old Angus bull has become the most expensive ever sold in Australia — for $360,000.

Spiders and scorpions are being delivered by mail, which Australia Post says is against its rules.

A proposal to limit pet ownership has been voted down by a NSW council following concerns it would be "like getting rid of a child". Similar policies have been voted down in other NSW LGAs in the past year. 

The SA Government announced the independent inquiry this week after an ABC investigation revealed alleged mistreatment of greyhounds.

Australia Post is trying to stop online retailers from shipping live bugs across the country in the mail after researchers raised biosecurity and conservation concerns.

Though the outcome was heartbreaking, more than 200 people left work, skipped school and braved freezing conditions to try and save 97 beached pilot whales.

The remainder of a pod of pilot whales has been euthanised, following a failed rescue mission on Western Australia's south coast. The mass stranding at Cheynes Beach began near Albany on Tuesday afternoon.

The announcement comes after the ABC obtained vision showing multiple greyhounds, including puppies, apparently being kicked and punched by a person on a property south-east of Adelaide.

She's best known as a travelling tent boxer with leg hairs so sharp "they could spear a rat" but Beaver Brophy, who has a CV that reads like a handful of darts thrown at a careers handbook, has added a bizarre new skill to her list of qualifications.

Veterinarians have euthanised pilot whales that re-stranded on a beach in southern Western Australia, despite painstaking attempts to herd them out to deeper water. 

With only one RSPCA inspector working to curb animal cruelty across Western Australia's far north, a community support organisation is helping alleviate the burden by offering assistance to neglected pets.

It has been a long, dirt road to success for 10-year-old cowboy Byron Kirk as he represents Australia at global rodeo championships in the US.

The ABC has obtained vision showing multiple greyhounds, including puppies, apparently being kicked and punched by a person on a property south-east of Adelaide. Warning: This story contains content that may distress some readers. 

A humpback whale calf believed to be just a couple of days old has been euthanased near Lennox Head south of Byron Bay.

Diver Jayde Theodore says being unexpectedly surrounded by a crowd of orcas off the coast of Batemans Bay is a 'once in a lifetime experience'.

An underweight rock hopper penguin  has been found on Goolwa Beach and is now being cared for by wildlife volunteers.

Dozens of pilot whales massed near Cheynes Beach, east of Albany, are becoming stranded on the shore.

The speckled bird, photographed by numerous locals in the town of Dunsborough in WA's South West, may have a rare genetic condition.