An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) this week. Taken almost 90 years ago, the ...

Amidst climate change and other threats to various animal species, it's always great to hear about some that are flourishing.

An old film from the last century captures the life of what would be the last of a very common Australian animal species.

Australia’s only hibernating marsupial is one of the snow country’s most adorable animals, but for many years it was believed to be lost forever. Previously only known from fossil records, the ...

The study, which was conducted by researchers at the Australian National University, used 184-year-old museum specimens to sequence the genomes of eight extinct Australian rodent species and then ...

The most precise tally yet. Counts of extinct Australian species vary. The federal government’s list of extinct plants and animals totals 92. However 20 of these are subspecies, five are now ...

Environment Animals Wildlife Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits. The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, ...

Counts of extinct Australian species vary. The federal government's list of extinct plants and animals totals 92. However 20 of these are subspecies, ...

All Protemnodon species went extinct on mainland Australia 40,000 years ago, and the reason isn't clear, especially because many species differed in size, habitat and other markers. Researchers ...

The Endangered Species Act at 50 02:32. Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an enormous challenge in the ...

More than half a billion animals are dead due to the wildfires still burning through Australia As horrific wildfires continue to tear through Australia, destroying homes, ecosystems and over half ...

Koalas are declared an endangered species in parts of Australia Australia's government cited the impacts of drought, bush fires and deforestation. The koala population dropped a reported 30% from ...