One of the things Australia is known for is its animals, predominantly, the deadly kind. While there are deadly animals in Australia, it’s important to remember Australia is the sixth largest country ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Australia is the most notorious country on Earth for deadly wildlife. The red continent is thick with venomous snakes and spiders, toothy sharks and crocodiles, baby-eating dingoes, and the cassowary ...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan fronts the team helping scientists investigate the lives of some of Australia’s most iconic animals. Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take the cameras into their ...

"It's really exciting to find this biodiversity under our noses." A new study reveals that DNA testing uncovered two more greater glider marsupial species. Bonnie Burton Journalist Bonnie Burton ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

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Australia’s landscapes are full of beauty, but they’re also home to animals with reputations few places can match. Some carry venom strong enough to shut down the body before help arrives, and others ...

Animal law is a growing area of study and practice because of the many ways in which nonhuman animals (animals) are used in a wide variety of venues. Globally, nonhumans, including fully sentient ...

A Nature Miniseries that offers a new perspective on the animal kingdom by taking viewers where no human cameraman can go. The series uses custom cameras worn by the animals themselves to capture ...