You probably know about the Tasmanian devil. You might even know about its smaller, less-famous relative, the spotted-tailed quoll. But these are far from the only meat-eating marsupials. Australia is ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have only been scientifically recognized in the past 25 years. Subscribe to our ...

Australia is home to extraordinary reptiles and frogs, from giant lace monitors to tiny alpine froglets. Over 1,100 reptiles and 250 frog species are found across the Australian continent and islands.

Australia’s mammalian fauna is distinguished by a high degree of endemism and by ecological specialisations that have evolved in isolation over millions of years. These species now face a confluence ...

In a protected forest of eastern Australia, one of the country's "rarest mammals" wandered past a trail camera, its pouch bulging slightly from the baby tucked inside. Conservationists later looked at ...

Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

Many animals feared extinct have actually been found alive and well, adapting to different habitats. WEEKLY MAGAZINE WOMAN’S DAY may seem an unlikely saviour of a species, but in 1973, the magazine ...

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The kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, until now. Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have only ...