A man accused of throwing a chicken known as Betty White into an alligator pen in front of shocked families at a popular NSW wildlife park has indicated he’ll plead not guilty to animal cruelty. The case against Peter William Smith, 57, of Singleton, was briefly mentioned in Raymond Terrace local court on Monday. High-profile … Read more
Locations where sharks have been captured and tagged, then released in Sydney’s waterways, have been revealed following an attack in the city’s eastern suburbs on Monday. Lauren O’Neill, 29, was bitten on the leg while swimming near an Elizabeth Bay jetty at dusk on Monday. The shark was most likely a bull shark, NSW Department … Read more
Drone video shot off the coast of Southern California, in the US, may have revealed the first-ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild. The 1.5m white shark was spotted on July 9, 2023, 400m off the coast of Carpinteria by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a doctoral student in … Read more
Firefighters were called in to wrangle a venomous 1.5m snake that was wandering around the backyard of a family home south of Sydney on Monday evening. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) received the distress call about the red-bellied black snake on the loose at a home on Kanandah Rd in Engadine about 6pm. They said … Read more
An elderly woman in China has decided to leave her multi-million-dollar fortune to her pets instead of her children after they failed to visit or care for her when she was sick. The Shanghai woman, known by her last Liu, drafted a will several years ago in which she left her $A4.3 million fortune to … Read more
Doctors told a young Queensland woman she was going to die after being stung by a box jellyfish in Thailand. Zoe Cahill, 23, was travelling and training as a yoga teacher in the Southeast Asian country when she was stung at Zen Beach on the popular island Koh Phangan last October. Cahill said she was … Read more
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But when Kimball asked Guinness about re-verifying Spike, these vet estimates were no longer sufficient evidence. One way to estimate the age of an animal is by their teeth, something that Spike lacks, although Kimball says she still has a few loose teeth left over from Spike’s run-in with the pit bull in 2015. Without … Read more
A cavoodle puppy on its way to a new home in Sydney has vanished, with the heartbroken family who were expecting the pooch offering $2000 for information leading to her return. Police are investigating reports the tiny dog named Jewel was stolen from a pet transport van parked in Armidale in the early hours of … Read more
When retired postman Rodney Holbrook set up cameras to try to find out who was tidying his shed almost every night, he found an unexpected helper scurrying around his workbench. The black-and-white, night-vision footage revealed that a tiny mouse was behind the mysterious tidying, helpfully moving objects left on the workbench into a box. WATCH … Read more
Planning a trip this winter? Yes, it’s tempting to look for sunny spots where you can lie on a beach or play golf. But some of my favorite winter vacations have been to northerly destinations at their coldest, darkest times of year. I don’t ski, so I’m not looking for powder. But I have seen … Read more
