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The first-ever transmissible cancer to spread among fish in a freshwater setting has been discovered among brown bullhead ...

Tiny, colorful and almost cartoonishly cute, it looks like the sort of sea creature you’d want to photograph up close... but ...

For years, we’ve marketed our sunshine, beaches and theme parks – but we’re missing an essential sales pitch: safety. So forget ‘the city that says yes’, how about ‘Welcome to the Gold Coast: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Al and Audi McGlashan were fishing in Sydney's Parramatta River when they accidentally caught the deadly creature on their line.

Some harlequin frogs have lost their poison—and their ability to defend themselves. Scientists are on the case.

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This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean. The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small ...

Being bitten by a strange animal can be extremely scary, especially since so many species use venom against their prey. One such animal is the blue-ringed octopus. While octopus venom is not typically ...

Off-duty paramedic Bek Groten’s evening stroll along the Geelong foreshore on New Year’s Day was interrupted when her son alerted her to the lethal animal. “The tide was out so he was just running ...