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A spotted-tailed quoll was released back into the wild after being found in central Brisbane, rescued and treated for injuries, officials said. Screengrab from Facebook video shared by Wildlife ...

In a remote part of southeastern Australia, two iconic native animals went about their daily business — until they came face-to-face. A nearby trail camera captured the “rarely documented” encounter, ...

A farmer in Australia tried to protect his chickens and captured a creature considered locally extinct for 130 years, wildlife officials said. Photo from Frank Pao-Ling Tsai A farmer in southern ...

SYDNEY — Australia’s northern quolls are small animals with big appetites — and they are eating themselves to death. Nocturnal marsupials, about the size of a squirrel, quolls once roamed all of ...

Several at-risk marsupials escaped from a fenced-in sanctuary in western Australia so ecologists used a plane to track down the radio-collared animals. Photo from Cassandra Harvey / Australian ...