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

A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

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.

“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 ...

Like platypuses, echidnas are monotremes, which means they're mammals that lay eggs. Echidnas lay one egg at a time , and those eggs take 10 to 14 days to hatch. Baby echidnas are called puggles.

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

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 ...

A hidden camera in Queensland captures a rare encounter between a young northern wombat and an echidna, revealing valuable ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection after being bitten by a bat, health officials said ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's“gentle and specialized creatures” were“unable to cope with changed conditions and. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.