These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from ...

Encountering a wombat in your tent might not be a pleasant surprise when camping in Australia, but at least it isn't a ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Australia is home to some of the most unique and fascinating wildlife on the planet. From kangaroos bounding across the ...

We associate animals with the places where they originate, but sometimes it’s their new homes where they really thrive.

Miniature dachshund Valerie, who was on the run for 529 days on a remote island and dubbed “Australia’s favorite fugitive,” ...

Between 600 and 700 of the marsupials were killed from the air, likely for the first time in the country's history. Officials ...

Australian tourist Nash Core and his young son joined forces with a group of locals to rescue a great white shark stranded in ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...