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.

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

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

The guthega skink only lives at high elevations and spends months hibernating under the snow ...

Of all the weird animals that exist in the world, platypuses are up there with the weirdest, and last year scientists discovered something even more peculiar about their fur: it glows! What may be ...

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