Biologists have recently fixated on our closest celestial body, but what can it tell us about the Moon's effects on animal ...

Australia's unique biodiversity, a product of almost 50 million years of glorious evolutionary isolation, is in freefall. The ...

Uncover more deadly Australian animals you should stay away from. Australian youngster Gout Gout became the fastest ...

There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

Australia has strong laws in place to regulate the trade and the dealing in wildlife to protect native species and to meet ...

Many measures have been tried and proven largely ineffective in reducing the roadkill toll. But, other evidence-based ...

John Woinarski is a member of the Biodiversity Council, a Director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, and a member of the Science Advisory Committee of Invertebrates Australia. Jess Marsh is ...

Wombats have nearly impermeable rear ends, which serve as both a crucial defense against predators and a key feature in their ...

Once found in tropical oceans around the world, the largetooth sawfish’s range has shrunk by an estimated 60 percent in a decade.

The West Australian Labor government has awarded its third round of funding for carbon farming and land restoration, with A$3.2 million ($2.03 mln) cash going to eight projects that will invest in ...

If Australia is losing one to three invertebrate species per week, the "zero extinctions" goal is pushed into a whole new realm of accountability. Unless we address this decline, that pledge of zero ...

But the Australian versions of native animals have never taken off. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald stated that keeping native animals as pets would be legalised under a plan put to the ...