The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

The seizure of dozens of live Western blue-tongued lizards, bearded dragons and spiny-tailed skinks covertly packed into popcorn bags, biscuit tins and women’s handbags have led to the longest prison ...

Citizen scientists uncover dinosaur toe bones and claws along Australia’s southern coast, sharpening insight into ancient polar life.

Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature — a strategy called heterothermy — and outlast storms, ...

As the firefighters packed up and went home from the recent Deep Creek fires, other volunteers were just starting weeks of work finding injured wildlife in the charred landscape.

The investigative minds at How to Survive explain the lethal threats of the Outback, from the Box Jellyfish to the Sydney ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Virgin Australia has today announced it is expanding a popular in-flight feature. It comes as the airline is set to welcome its 1,000th pet in the cabin alongside its owners. According to Libby ...

The plight of a young, abandoned macaque monkey in Japan has tugged at heartstrings around the world. If we recognise animals' capacity for distress, what responsibility does that entail?

Once a month, builder Anthony Martin rocks up to an empty carpark in northern NSW with a bundle of cash. He’s waiting for a ...

Townsville’s Billabong Sanctuary will become home to some of Australia’s most vulnerable animals after thanks to a $300,000 ...