Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have ...

Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

An old film from the last century captures the life of what would be the last of a very common Australian animal species.

Conservationists have long believed Australia's endemic mammals are naive or poorly adapted to survive alongside ambush hunters such as foxes and cats. But there's no current evidence for this.

More than 100 species that lived only in Australia are recognised as having become extinct since 1788.. Thirty-nine of these extinct species are mammals.Most recently, this includes the Bramble ...

Of all the mammals that have gone extinct in the world since 1788 when Australia was invaded, 37% have happened in Australia. It’s more than anywhere in the world in one country.

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major challenge [has been] discovering bones that contain [enough] collagen to ...

In Australia, unique species abound – from koalas and kangaroos to wombats and emus. Now, the western laughing frog and a spider named for Tom Hardy are among the 750 new species recognized on ...

Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent in the world, and more are headed towards extinction in the coming years due to a combined effect of habitat loss, invasive species ...

Many mammals — and many Australian mammals in particular — possess photoluminescent fur, a widely accepted fact among biologists. “Rats, along with bandicoots, possums, bats, tree-kangaroos, and many ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have only been scientifically recognised in the past 25 years.