Getty Image While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

SYDNEY, Australia – Platypuses are at risk of extinction due to Australia’s devastating droughts and other threats, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of New South Wales ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

With no sightings for half a century and a landscape heavily impacted by cattle grazing, botanists feared the worst. The plant had only been spotted once before, in 1925, in Australia. After that ...