The new study found that they lost their arboreal habitat due to a drying climate, a dire warning for the modern-day ...

A third of the habitats currently occupied by land animals across the world could be exposed to multiple climate-driven extreme events such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and floods by 2085 if ...

A rare Australian mammal has returned to a region where it was pushed to the brink of extinction 100 years ago. Since 2025, ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

You won’t come within cooee of a honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) unless you’re in the south-west of Western Australia. It’s not that some vast historic distribution range has contracted to a corner ...

From brightly coloured birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia’s native animals are a sight to behold. The island continent is home to nearly 600,000 plants, animals and insects, many of which ...

Australia does not simply have a large number of lizards. In many regions, they dominate the landscape almost quietly, moving ...

A Curtin University-led study has revealed the extraordinary biodiversity hidden in deep underwater canyons off Western ...

When conservationists began re-planting koala habitat at a site near the Moorabool River, in Victoria’s central west, it was ...

A shaded creek winds through fern forest along the Lilydale Falls Trail in northern Tasmania. As hikers pass by, researcher Todd Walsh reaches into the slow-moving water and beneath a rock to pull out ...

As the world’s largest living lizards, Komodo dragons are some of the most fascinating and intimidating reptiles on Earth. In ...