Have you ever paused to think about the athletic abilities of Australian wildlife? Let’s look at some of our best competitors ...

Around half of the nation's total known night parrots live in a patch of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. While ...

A number of native animals, extinct in New South Wales for more than 100 years, are reclaiming the desert in Sturt National ...

“Our research has found the elusive first links between fossil material that suggest dingoes have evolved locally from an ...

Virgin also claimed a poll taken via its Facebook page saw 85% of respondents in favour of the airline allowing pets in the ...

The first comprehensive overview of trade in Australian reptiles and frogs worldwide shows more species should be listed for ...

Tina Venables was keeping an eye out for kangaroos as she drove home from work last week. What she came across instead at the ...

Australian authorities will decide whether to add the species to the global protection database, as they ramp up enforcement efforts to intercept animals smuggled in planes and post. In a vast ...

The animal was a thylacine, more commonly known as a Tasmanian tiger. Thousands of the predator called the island home when ...

Hundreds of farmers from across Australia held a protest on Tuesday against government farming policies they said were ...

Virgin Australia is preparing to trial pets on planes between Melbourne and Sydney initially, with the airline expected to ...

Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms to its official list of species living on ...