New Australian research shows bumblebees can learn and recognise rhythmic patterns across different tempos and even across ...

In 1964, Australian armed forces fight Indonesian troops in Borneo and on the Malay Peninsula.

Living like mammals in a land without them, Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless birds are an evolutionary enigma.

Alice Springs has achieved almost mythical fame as a popular subject in poems, songs and novels, the most famous being Nevil ...

Australia’s once-successful biocontrol agents for rabbits are losing their edge. As destructive populations of feral bunnies ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

There is a reason wasps are the inspiration for so many sci-fi books and films – many species lay their eggs on, or in, the bodies of other arthropods so their larvae have a nutritious and safe start ...

NASA is sending astronauts back around the Moon. And Australia will play a critical role in helping them get there.

In 1999, University of Tasmania (UTAS) ecologist Professor Menna Jones travelled to Little Swanport on the state’s east coast to trap Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) for a population study – ...

Northern quoll rediscovered after 80 years, land snails back from extinction in Norfolk Island, and the Antarctic ozone hole ...

The marsupial frog and Wollumbin hip-pocket frog are the only two Australian frog species known to show parental care. And ...