A young girl who had been missing for five days has been found.
Tinkah, 13, was last seen leaving her Footscray home, in Melbourne about 4.45pm on Friday.
Police and family have concerns for her welfare due to her age and medical conditions.
A search was launched to find her.
She was found in Paisley Street, Footscray at 1pm on Wednesday.
The rare sighting of the shark at a popular swimming spot excited locals, but then they spotted something worrying. Find out more.
They've developed a taste for our agricultural crops, with one product in particular on their radar.
Fewer than 50 coastal emus remain and the population faces extinction in the coming decades. Find out more.
Orcas that prey on marine mammals sometimes “punt” seals or sea lions high into the air to stun the pinnipeds before meal time. On Saturday in California’s Monterey Bay, one young orca was caught on video practicing its skills on a large seabird. The accompanying
Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful to hit Asia this year, kills 60 and destroys homes across north of country.
A major US-led search for what would be the first ever great white shark recorded in either Irish or British waters has concluded without success. The team from non-profit research organisation Ocearch is returning to Florida after finishing work at the grey seal hotspot of the Great Blasket Island in County Kerry. "Sure, it was a little disappointing," Dr Nick Payne, the expedition's lead Irish-based scientist, said.
While Wollemi pines can be purchased at nurseries, there's something that makes these six specimens extra special.
The three boys join more than 100 different species at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm.
‘We can’t just blame politicians’ for Athens wildfire devastation, one local says.
Officials in Borno are trying to recapture the creatures and warn the public to take care.
Residents living on the largest area of natural vegetation on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, used to call the coastal ground movement slowly shifting beneath their feet the best thing that ever happened to them.
People in Chongqing suspect cloud seeding caused strong winds that sent laundry flying but authorities deny claim
Plans have been revealed to seal 100,000 methane-leaking wells in the next decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Technology experts in Edinburgh aim to use a chemical injection to transform the methane-emitting rocks into a solid seal of insoluble minerals. The technique will lock in greenhouse gases deep underground for thousands of years, according to Rockit, a clean technology company based at Heriot-Watt University.
An injured cassowary was successfully reunited with its father after it was found on a property in Bingil Bay on September 3.Footage released by the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation shows the moment the cassowary chick was reunited with its father on September 4.The department said the chick, called a “stripey” because of its feather pattern, was found injured on a property in Bingil Bay, sitting “listlessly” with a “large gash” on its neck.The bird was taken to a local vet where the injury was deemed to be superficial.However, wildlife officers were worried that the cassowary father would no longer recognize its youngster, and hurried the young bird back to Bingil Bay the next day.Luckily, the stripey and its father were successfully reunited.The department warned that cassowaries are dangerous animals that can inflict serious injuries to people and pets by kicking out with their clawed feet.People were asked to follow department advice to be cass-o-wary around the animals. Credit: Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation via Storyful
The first comprehensive overview of trade in Australian reptiles and frogs worldwide shows more species should be listed for monitoring under the international convention on wildlife trade.
Lower temperatures follow wet weekend and weather warning in the capital
Raging wildfires in California and Nevada are forcing the mandatory evacuations of thousands of homes as forecasters warn of a few more days of record-breaking heat for parts of the West.
A marine enthusiast captured spectacular footage of a humpback whale lunge feeding off Southampton, New York, before it joined some dolphin swimming nearby.Joanna Steidle said she captured the footage on Monday morning, September 9, after spotting “two adult dolphins with a calf in between them riding the nose of a whale.” Credit: Joanna Steidle via Storyful
Mexican officials attempted to tranquilize the large cat after it was spotted but failed
Yagi — the strongest typhoon to hit Vietnam in decades — made landfall on Saturday with winds of up to 149 kilometres per hour.
