Koalas are among Australia’s most beloved animals, instantly recognizable by their fluffy ears, button noses and joey-filled ...

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

Approximately 100,000 years ago, koalas faced near extinction due to brutal ice ages. A recent genetic study triumphantly ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a ...

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 ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has now been found in a second state, South Australia, after earlier being identified in Western Australia. Authorities have confirmed three seabirds have died of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Don't tell researchers in Western New Guinea that lightning doesn't strike twice. In an astonishing discovery ...

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...