For the Tasmanian devil, time is running short as the species faces shrinking genetic diversity. As the largest living ...

Evolution has repeatedly pushed different crustacean lineages toward the same broad, compact, crab-like body shape, a pattern ...

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The caves, which are in New South Wales, have played an enormous role in Australian palaeontology and remain an active ...

Marsupials are pouched mammals and are a group of mammals that most of us probably associate with Australasia and Wallacea, ...

The discovery of a new branch on the marsupial family tree suggests that the history of Australia’s unique mammals is more complex and less understood than previously thought.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped fill in a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary history.

Australia faces uncertainty after the world's most dangerous strain of H5 bird flu was detected on the mainland for the first time. Two cases of the virus in migratory birds have been confirmed in ...

In the diverse animal kingdom, speed manifests in numerous ways. While cheetahs dash across savannas and peregrine falcons dive through skies, another form of impressive velocity happens beneath our ...

Marsupials represent a distinctive branch of mammalian reproduction, characterised by a brief gestation, the birth of highly altricial young and an extended lactation period during which development ...