Most of our knowledge of New Zealand's prehistoric bird diversity comes from long-lost species with bones large enough to be ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared ...

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...

Australia doesn’t have any “kill sites” or other incontrovertible hard evidence that people were killing and butchering the ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Scientists warn that, as oceans rise, plants and animals with nowhere to go could experience the same fate as the Bramble Cay ...

As nighttime settled across a national park in Australia, an “extremely rare” mammal with “long” feet bounded into a forest clearing and circled around a bush. Unbeknownst to it, a nearby trail camera ...