Echidnas are egg-laying, insect-eating mammals native to Australia, according to the Australian Museum. The country has only one species, the short-beaked echidna, which can be found throughout the ...

An international student has been jailed after trying to smuggle nearly $75,000 worth of native Australian lizards to China.

Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

An international student has been jailed for attempting to smuggle nearly $75,000 worth of native lizards to China.

The study—led by Brad Martin, a Flinders University Ph.D. candidate, with colleagues from Flinders' College of Science and ...

Kultarrs are tiny, cryptic creatures that only come out at night. Now, scientists are finally learning how they live.

A death adder at an Australian wildlife park found to have three fangs that all produce deadly neurotoxic venom.

Noxious weeds cost Australia billions of dollars each year in agricultural and environmental degradation. These weeds of ...

Australian native animals are protected by law ... an age where it would be relying on its mum’s protection “at all times”. Dr Bishop said the situation would have been distressing for ...

The dismissal of a commonwealth appeal in a landmark compensation case shows the "strength" of native title and may have implications for traditional owners across Australia.

The High Court of Australia upheld a landmark surrounding native title compensation over the destruction of their land due to mining. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman The Commonwealth then ...

Sam Jones is facing backlash for a now-deleted video that shows her carrying a baby wombat away from its mom in Australia.