“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

For the first time in Queensland’s history a conservationist group will release 150 bilbies into the wild near Cunnamulla.

The 2,000-hectare Nungatta feral predator-free area in the South-East Forest National Park has been completed, but for now, ...

What do a sea unicorn, a termite gourmand, and a freshwater predator with dagger-like teeth have in common? Odd names aside, ...

Scientists have successfully mapped the genome of the Tasmanian tiger, an extinct marsupial native to Australia that was last ...

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia's megafauna.

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

The species was declared locally extinct in 2016 and last recorded in the wild more than a century ago, wildlife officials ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a ...

The extinct Malleodectidae family of carnivorous marsupials has become a little bit bigger with the addition of a newly described species – Malleodectes arenai – and a new genus so strange it has been ...

Forest ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer says the shock discovery of critically endangered Leadbeater's possum is likely ...