A successful surgery has been performed on a tiny tree frog weighing less than a gram in weight and shorter than 2cm long.

Dr Meaghan Barrow, an RSPCA vet from the Wacol facility, said a nurse found the little amphibian whose tiny lung and intestines were poking out of a hole in its thorax. 

Marine scientist Dr Townsend and ecologist Dominique Potvin from the University of the Sunshine Coast studied nearly 900 preserved bird nest specimens collected between the years 1832 and 2018.

Their world-first research on bird nests at Museums Victoria and the CSIRO in Canberra was published this month in the scientific journal Oecologia.

Fears of a pandemic resurgence in the United States is gaining steam as the Delta variant is spreading throughout states with low vaccination rates. 

President Joe Biden urges the population in the affected states to get vaccinated, as they accounted for 40 percent of all cases last week. 

An Australian detained in Myanmar prison now experiencing cold and flu symptoms amid the spread of the Delta variant.

Sean Turnell, Australian adviser to Myanmar’s deposed leader was the first foreign national arrested after the February coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi from power.

Researchers from Griffith University are looking to collect cell samples of every marine species on the planet with the launch of Australia’s first Marine Wildlife Cell Bank. 

Australian rivers institute marine ecologist and eco-toxicologist Dr Jason van de Merwe said the cell bank was established to address the lack of available marine wildlife cell cultures for research purposes. 

Police actions at a Refugee Solidarity Meanjin rally on Sunday at Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre raised concerns by Action Ready legal observers. 

The Action Ready observers reported the Queensland Police Service had aggressively conducted over 20 ‘random spot compliance checks’ of driver licences, car regos, ‘random’ drug and alcohol swab testing at a peaceful protest area. 

A new major shopping precinct in Ipswich got the official green light by the city council.

The retail complex located in Yamanto will be built on a 15.7 hectare site, as a single storey development with 15 goods tenants, two food and drink outlets and over 500 car parks.

The project is expected to create over 400 jobs.

After a month filled with powerful storms, heavy showers and flooding, Perth is on track to break a 20 year rainfall record this week.

Meteorologists said the west coast needs just 3mm of rain today and that will make it the wettest July for the state since 2001. 

A NSW court has fined a property developer and a demolition company a combined $155,000 over the illegal clearing of 21 trees to make way for a possible new boarding house in Sydney’s north-west suburbs.