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New video shows the moment a French woman was attacked by a dingo at a beach in K’gari, Australia. The Queensland Department of Environment and Science says the animal was "humanely euthanised" after being involved in a number of "high-risk" incidents. K'gari Island in Queensland is home to some 200 wild dingoes. There are strict rules against feeding them with heavy fines for offenders. Another dingo was euthanised earlier this month after months of attacks on the island.

Tasmanian devils were born in mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years, wildlife charity Aussie Ark announced. The non-profit announced in an Instagram post Monday that seven Tasmanian devil joeys were born at Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary after the species died out in the country due to predators and disease. "We have been working tirelessly for the better part of 10 years to return devils to the wild of mainland Australia with the hope that they would establish a sustainable population," the Aussie Ark said. "We had been watching them from afar until it was time to step in...

Scientists worked with aboriginal Australian communities to explore heritage... Modern humans arrived in Australia about 50 thousand years ago, forming the ancestors of present-day Aboriginal Australians. They were amongst the earliest settlers outside Africa. They arrived in an ancient continent made up of today's Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, called Sahul, probably thousands of years before modern humans arrived in Europe. Five thousand years ago, dingos, the native dogs, somehow arrived in Australia, and changes in stone tool use and language around the same time raised the question of whether there were also associated genetic changes in the Australian Aboriginal...

In modern society dogs are often referred to as "man's best friend" but according to an archaeological review early Aboriginal society sported a similar relationship between women and dingoes (Canis lupus dingo). The study by UWA and ANU suggests people formed close bonds with dingoes soon after the dogs' arrival on the mainland roughly 4000 years ago, with the dogs enabling women to contribute more hunted food. UWA archaeologist Jane Balme, who led the research, says it is thought the first dingoes arrived on watercraft with people from South East Asia. "What they're doing on the boat is not clear...

A DINGO took the sister she never knew but Zahra Chamberlain, 18, says she loves the native dogs and wants to protect them. The half-sister of Azaria Chamberlain – the nine-week-old baby snatched from her tent at Uluru in 1980 – has become a passionate dingo advocate and is training to be a dingo handler. The Year 12 student has been flying to Queensland from her home in Lake Macquarie, NSW, to support a dingo sanctuary. Now she has spoken for the first time about her love of the species that father Michael and his first wife Lindy fought 32...

TRAPPED by a dingo on a North Coast beach, the wallaby's survival instincts have it bolting for the waves. But that wasn't enough to save the marsupial. As a stunned Alan Hanson watched, the dingo-cross charged into the shore break and lunged at the wallaby's tail. "It was incredibly powerful," Mr Hanson - who took these pictures - said. "It dragged the wallaby to the sand by the tail and was slamming it on to the ground. It then just went for the throat." Video: Did a dingo really do it? We'll never know Mr Hanson had been beachcombing at...

A recent study has revealed that Dingo is the world's oldest breed of dog. This dog according to experts is basically a cross between dogs and wolves. Experts have found closest genetic similarity between the dingo and wolves. Dingo's have been discovered to be the close kin of, the rare New Guinea singing dog as they shares similar DNA. Dingos and the singing dogs, even their similar features to other dogs were from other breeds for thousands of years. "This gives us a huge weight of evidence supporting the theory that the dingo is quite distinct from all modern dog...

Re-introducing dingoes across tracts of Australia could have benefits for wildlife and possibly cattle farmers. Researchers found that dingoes suppress populations of kangaroos and red foxes, which are big consumers of vegetation and small mammals respectively. Writing in the Royal Society's journal Proceedings B, they say the benefits of dingoes outweigh concerns over their presence as an "alien predator". The wild dogs were brought to Australia about 5,000 years ago. Their appetite for sheep means they have been expelled from large swathes of the country, notably the productive farmlands of New South Wales and Victoria, where a "dingo fence" more...

Bring dingoes back to stop species extinction 17:23 02 November 2006 NewScientist.com news service Rachel Nowak Dingoes may make a comeback Bizarrely, reintroducing dingoes – Australia’s top natural predator – could improve the survival of smaller marsupial species that they often prey on, researchers say. The Eastern hare-wallaby? Gone. The lesser bilby? Gone. In the past two centuries, 18 mammals have gone extinct in Australia, accounting for almost half the mammalian extinctions in the world over that time period. Biologists usually blame that infamous record on a complex set of circumstances, including changes in how people use fire to clear...

A CARTOON depicting Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer as fornicating dingoes was a grotesque stunt by a tacky publication, Mr Downer said today. But the minister said the Indonesian paper which published the lurid cartoon had every right to do in a free society. The Islamic-leaning Rakyat Merdeka (People's Freedom) newspaper has run the cartoon on its front page amid Indonesia's continuing anger over Australia's giving visas to 42 West Papuan asylum seekers. The cartoon depicts the two dingoes having sex under a palm tree on an otherwise barren island signposted "Papua". Headlined "The adventure of...

Beware of the 150lb super-dingoes By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 12/08/2004) Hikers in Australia are being warned about a fierce new breed of half-dingo wild dog stalking the country's mountains and forests. Abandoned or escaped domestic dogs such as rottweilers, bull mastiffs and Rhodesian ridgebacks have interbred with Australia's native dog to produce a new strain of "super-dingoes". The cross-breeds are bigger and more powerful than ordinary dingoes. One animal recently shot dead by a farmer reportedly weighed 154lb. They are killing livestock and menacing walkers, horse riders and campers along the Great Dividing Range, a chain of mountains,...

Wild dingoes descended from domestic dogs 12:45 29 September 03 NewScientist.com news service The mysterious origin of Australia's wild dingoes has become substantially clearer following new genetic research. It shows the animals descended from domestic dogs introduced from South East Asia about 5000 years ago. The ancestry of dingoes has been much debated. The time of arrival, the source and type of animal - wild or domestic - were all uncertain. "There hasn't been a lot of evidence, so everything has been speculation," says Alan Wilton, of the University of New South Wales. Wilton, with colleagues including Peter Savolainen at...