When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...

In an existential quirk of bureaucracy, a small species of native mouse is both extinct and alive under the Australian government's eyes. That's because the species Pseudomys gouldii appears on the ...

Australia is home to some of the most remarkable species on Earth and importantly, many of these species don't exist anywhere else. Australia is seeing unprecedented adverse weather events due to ...

New research uncovers a lost world of strange crocodile relatives that once thrived across Australasia alongside early humans.

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has now been found in a second state, South Australia, after earlier being identified in ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia following a breeding programme designed to ensure its survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after ...