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A bilby (Macrotis lagotis – large animal) and a Spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys alexis – small animal) at Sydney Wildlife World, a zoo in Sydney (Image: Dcoetzee/Wikipedia) In 1997, conservationists introduced captive-bred greater bilbies to Thistle Island in South Australia, a place the species had never historically inhabited. The release was part of a wider…

Representative Image (AI-generated) What if the best way to understand a 2,000-year-old burned scroll is to make one yourself and set it on fire? Scientists did just that to investigate how writing might be recovered from carbonised papyrus scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers created…

Protests broke out in a city in central Nigeria after 37 miners detained during raids on suspected illegal gold mines were found dead in the custody of the paramilitary force that carried out the operation.The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) conducted the raids on September 15 and 16 in the Wushishi-Lukoto area, west…

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge spans about 4.3 miles, connecting Sandy Point and Kent Island in Maryland. (Photo: Public domain) Maryland’s plan to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is raising concerns among farmers and conservation groups on the state’s Eastern Shore. They say the new crossing could increase development pressure on farmland and other open land,…

He was 31 and had just celebrated his birthday a few days ago while listening to Taylor Swift songs, before heading to Lebanon as an independent freelance journalist and photographer covering the ongoing Syrian civil war. That was the last time the former US Marine and Georgetown University law student was seen out and about….

File photo: The Pentagon is seen from the air, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Washington The Pentagon is considering withdrawing at least 25,000 US troops from Europe, potentially cutting the American military presence on the continent by nearly one-third, NBC News reported Thursday.The drawdown could be even larger, with some options involving the withdrawal of…

The Chinese vessel carried out a series of dangerous manoeuvres and eventually made contact with the ship (Photo: X/@jaytaryela). Philippine Coast Guard reported a collision on Friday in which a Chinese Coast Guard vessel hit a boat in the disputed South China Sea.Philippine’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel, BRP Datu Magat Salamat,…

Carinne Meyrignac turned a simple idea sparked by motherhood into a children’s publishing business generating millions in annual revenue. After discovering musical books in France that kept her young daughter engaged, she returned to Los Angeles and struggled to find similar products. In 2016, she decided to create her own interactive musical books, launching Cali’s…

File photo: Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles at their wedding Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, is set to release a memoir that makes a series of deeply personal claims about his sister’s relationship with King Charles, alleging that the then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated — like a lottery winner” when he called…

The biggest mystery is how many tilcayo cats are actually living in the wild. Researchers currently cannot determine the species’ full range, partly because small tiger cats are notoriously difficult to identify through camera-trap surveys. A tiny wild cat living quietly in the Bolivian Andes has turned out to be something scientists have been searching…