It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...
Everyone from rugby union supporters to wildlife and animal lovers has heard of the Australian wallaby. But it's perhaps less ...
Australia's unique wildlife faces a silent crisis. Isolated evolution left many species vulnerable to modern threats like ...
Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...
A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia following a breeding programme designed to ensure its survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after ...
A Critically Endangered reptile known only to occur in the grasslands around Melbourne has been spotted for the first time in ...
The fossil was discovered in Boodjamulla National Park, officials said. Brian McMahon`via Unsplash Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla ...
Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen Arman Muharmansyah/Australian Museum Two marsupials ...