While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete isolation has its pros and cons. The benefits are extraordinary flora and fauna that ...

Conservationists in Australia saw several young animals, including a set of quadruplets, from “one of the rarest mammals in the world,” photos show. Screengrab from video shared by Brad Leue / ...

Australian researchers have discovered mosquitoes act like tiny ‘flying wildlife surveyors’, collecting the DNA of elusive ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...

Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 ...