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

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

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

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

Every week, one or two species of Australian invertebrate go extinct. Many species on the brink live in cities – where we can ...

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

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

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don’t use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to ...

Because the snake is native to the Brisbane region, Mark Pelley suspects it escaped from a passenger’s luggage during a ...

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

Australia is home to some of the most diverse and unique wildlife on the planet, yet there’s an intriguing question: why don’t animals in Australia consume billions of other creatures? Despite the ...