Australia plans to introduce a law that will ban people under 16 from using social media, starting December this year, but skeptics say young people will just find a way round the restrictions. To see ...

It’s possible they may have brought their canine companions along. An illustration of the extinct Falkland Island wolf produced by George Waterhouse in 1839, following Charles Darwin’s famous ...

"Going back to what it would have been like 200 years ago." Two endangered species once thought extinct make unlikely ...

When we think about animals, we tend to think of furry four-legged mammals. But 95% of all animal species are ...

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

Xenacanthus was a 3-to-5-foot freshwater shark which fed on crustaceans and small fish. It lived from the end of the Devonian ...

People typically think of wombats as small because we usually only see juveniles, but they are giant, the second-largest ...

The fossilized stomach contents of a 95 million-year-old sauropod has proven scientists’ theory that the dinosaur lived on a ...

Koalas might appear to be all cuddly and sleepy, but these star Australian marsupials are full of interesting surprises.

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...