Only the fourth known human case of Australian bat lyssavirus infection ends in tragedy. The case of an Australian man ...

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

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

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

The virus -- a close relative to rabies, which does not exist in Australia -- is transmitted when bat saliva enters the human ...

One of the country's most invasive pests is wreaking havoc on caravan parks in Australia's south, with photos shared online ...

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

“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 ...

Sydney: An Australian man in his 50s has tragically died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection, Australian bat ...

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 ...

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...