On Thursday, a pip — or the first sign of hatching — was seen in the third egg in the avian couple's clutch. Triplets would be unprecedented for the eagles in a decade of observation.

Thousands of residents in Australia's east were ordered to evacuate ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred's landfall on Saturday as the storm brought heavy rains, huge waves and strong winds that cut off ...

Sperm whales are a deep-diving species and prey on large squid. BDMLR had hoped that, once free of all the remaining ropes, the whale would refloat on a rising tide. But it died later on Monday.