“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 ...

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

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

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

The issue is that surviving fossils are often too fragmented to identify the original species. And DNA, the genetic blueprint ...

Researchers developed collagen peptide markers to identify three extinct Australian megafauna genera, a hippo-sized wombat, a ...

Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger. Colossal Biosciences, a company known for its genetic research to "de ...

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

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...

Australia’s invasive species council says that since the European settlement, at least 33 mammal species have become extinct, with many of those marsupials. A historically high rate of ...