The planet has seen a number of devastating fires in recent years. From California to Canada, Thailand, and Algeria, no part ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian ...

The Wild Benches of Hope, a public art series of three bronze benches highlighting endangered animals is now on display at ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

As we move through the world, we leave behind invisible traces of ourselves encased in the hair, skin, and other bodily ...

Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

When people think about deadly Australian animals, their minds usually race straight to venomous spiders, aggressive sharks, or those notoriously lethal snakes. The internet loves sharing terrifying ...

Almost $1 million in grants for groups caring for Western Australia's pets and wildlife33 State-wide recipients to receive funding to help look after ...

When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an ...