In 1918, the SS Makambo ran aground near Lord Howe Island, triggering a series of events that would change the island forever ...

Ahead of Australian Open, Briton’s hand and ankle swelled up but she refused antiseptic in case contamination led to a ...

A bird flu outbreak poses a significant risk to wildlife in New Zealand but the country's conservation volunteers could ...

Rangers have released six threatened snakes back to the wild after alleged poachers were stopped at a remote roadblock.

About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses suggest a varied diet, meaning climate change was not the main cause.

The findings, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Emu – Austral Ornithology, highlight the importance of Bass Strait as a flyway for land birds and raise a potential environmental threat ...

Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...

An Emperor penguin was tired, hungry, and underweight after swimming 2,100 miles to Australia from Antarctica.

Endemic to north-western Australia, the atlas moth ( Attacus wardi) boasts an impressive wingspan of up to 22cm, making it ...

Every year, feral cats kill over 1.5 billion native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs. Thankfully, the ‘Game Changers’ new ...

Filming the BBC's landmark series Asia took its crew on a four-year-long odyssey from the open ocean to the "roof of the ...