AUSTRALIA, the birds of which have a foremost place among those of the world for their variety of form and beauty of plumage, has been fortunate in having two splendid treatises devoted to its ...

"In central Australia we've seen goannas coming out from their burrows after a fire and picking off injured animals - singed birds, young birds, small mammals, surface dwelling lizards and snakes ...

Mammals, reptiles, birds and frogs died in the flames ... In February, the Australian government identified 113 animal species which needed "urgent help" after the bushfires.

Newly released data from the National Coronial Information System has revealed which animals are involved in the most human ...

I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ... [+] pressures. But they will continue to perish if we don ...

Gus stands on a beach near Denmark, Australia. Photograph By Miles Brotherson/DBCA via AP ... In both cases, further human ...

These flightless birds are only found in Australia, New Guinea and some Pacific ... as it provides flow-on effects to other animals in that habitat. But this strategy can only go so far, he ...

A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards ...

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...

The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential ...