Five Australian marsupials have been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...

Numbats, Western Australia's animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population ...

Australia's green and golden bell frog has been hiding a dazzling secret in plain sight. Scientists discovered the skin on ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...

New research uncovers a lost world of strange crocodile relatives that once thrived across Australasia alongside early humans.

Australia's unique wildlife faces a silent crisis. Isolated evolution left many species vulnerable to modern threats like habitat loss and introduced predators. From the smiling Quokka to the ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia following a breeding programme designed to ensure its survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after ...

Two endangered Maugean skates have been returned to Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour after more than two years in captivity. But ...