What lies deep beneath ocean surfaces is often a mystery. In Australia, many underwater habitats have not been mapped, and researchers know little about them. Now, scientists are working to change ...

Australia is home to some of the world's most unique and formidable wildlife, from powerful dingoes and massive kangaroos to venomous snakes and highly adaptable predators. Across deserts, forests, ...

Australia needs to urgently prioritise state and national conservation policies according to a new study, with the findings warning more than 220 critically endangered species are at risk of being ...

Australia’s bushfires and other climate change effects are devastating the habitats of critically endangered species and driving the native platypus towards extinction, according to surveys ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

North Quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus, in a cage trap, Northern Territory, Australia© Jess Latimer/Shutterstock.com According to the report, the top five threatened species facing the most habitat ...

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones – spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The southern cassowary, a rare and elusive rainforest bird that lives along Queensland’s northern coast, once faced extinction. Now, its numbers ...

Few could forget the devastating megafires that raged across southeast and western Australia during 2019-20. As well as killing people and destroying homes and towns, the fires killed wildlife and ...