Animals with blue eyes are a rare occurrence in nature due to being linked to recessive genetics, mutations, and specific ...

Czech science student František Vejmělka is the first to capture the giant woolly rat on camera — one of the world’s largest ...

Shearwaters, or mutton birds, are known for undertaking extensive migrations, during which they can be exposed to countless ...

West Nile Virus starts off with a flu-like illness with body aches and vomiting and can lead to fatal meningitis ...

A lithium mine could contribute to the extinction of a fish species in southwestern Nevada, the federal government acknowledged Tuesday in a document recommending its protection. The Fish Lake Valley ...

A one-of-a-kind ecosystem lies above the bauxite Alcoa says it needs for its future. The company’s request to expand mining in Australia is drawing objections from scientists and the land’s original ...

Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

A large proportion of New Zealand’s described jumping spider species are affiliated with Australian relatives and there is very little known about the remaining endemic species. The Dansey Road ...

Such was the case with some endemic land snails. There are an incredible 70 species found only on Lord Howe—Australia’s highest concentration of land snail diversity. Snail numbers plummeted ...

Australia has already lost more than 100 endemic species in the past three centuries, placing it at the forefront of the global extinction crisis. The Australian Government has made a commitment ...

Of these new bryozoans, 50 come from a single rock formation in Australia dating to the ... were given the go ahead was because the species diversity was grossly underestimated, and we didn’t know how ...

Australian conservationists have hailed ... The CSIRO says there are 14 species of handfish, with seven endemic to Tasmania and the Bass Strait. They are so named because they prefer to "walk ...