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 ...

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 ...

Tragically, Australia is the world leader in mammal extinctions. Sadly, introduced predators carry much of the blame.feral ...

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 ...