The Mary River Turtle, an Australian freshwater species, possesses the extraordinary ability to breathe through its rear, ...

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...

Australia's photographic natural database is about to get a big boost as citizen scientists are urged to join a national ...

A young Aussie woman has shared her friend’s horror story about an encounter with a native animal that left the pair cracking ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Experts estimate cats kill more than 1.5 billion native animals every year in Australia — including mammals, birds, reptiles ...

But the native rodent wasn't always a hunter — in fact ... but research in the 1980s and 1990s disputed these descriptions and suggested there was just one Australian species. An 1863 lithograph of ...

Chinese national Zhang Qiran, 22, pleaded guilty after 125 native spiders and insects were found in his luggage at Sydney ...

It's an issue that has caused heated debate in jurisdictions across the country, with millions of pet owners facing tougher rules. Read the latest.