Australia needs to urgently prioritize state and national conservation policies, according to a new study, with the findings ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

The Cassowary Credit biodiversity credit market will reward landowners for restoring the country's rainforest wetlands, says ...

Chemical analysis of a bird’s feathers offers a reliable way to tell whether it was captive-born or wild-caught.

The sighting occurred in the middle of the state’s controversial duck shooting season, which is running this year from March ...

But the surreal showdown highlighted the birds’ critical role in ... as one of the country’s most iconic species. Following World War I, the Australian government sought to settle more than ...

This is the fourth time in the last 160 years such a “spectacular” event has occurred, officials said. It is expected to ...

Australia has a remarkable reputation as a place where animals believed to be extinct – sometimes for more than a century – ...

Researchers on Lord Howe Island find in Australia plastic-filled chicks with signs of organ damage, neurodegeneration, and a ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

Symmons has been surveying birds here for only six months yet he’s already identified 100 species. I’ve arrived ... mainstream attractions such as the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame ...