A rare lizard species' population is on the rise! The guthega skinks of Victoria, Australia, are set to increase from 11 to 13, with a rare pregnancy expected to produce two babies in March.

A rare juvenile platypus has been admitted to Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital, after being rescued from a river in north-eastern New South Wales over the weekend.

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

When Europeans first saw a platypus, they thought it was fake. A fur-covered mammal with a duck-like bill that lays eggs made no sense at the time. It turns out the platypus is one of only two ...

A short-beaked echidna has joined Rockhampton Zoo, taking up residence in a newly refurbished Aussie animals enclosure.Mono ...

Mono, the short-beaked echidna, has joined Rockhampton Zoo, taking up residence in a newly refurbished Aussie animals enclosure. Mono -named after the word “monotreme,” meaning egg‑laying mammal – ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Follows Perry the Platypus, who returns as his alter ego Agent P, as he takes on a new undercover mission to stop animal ...

The bill, which is expected to be presented to parliament in early 2026, is also targeting possession glue traps, and using prong collars. It is backed by more than 7,000 submissions from a range of ...