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

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from inundating Australia’s fragile ecosystems—one camel burger at a time.

Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

Analysis of single bone may tell us if the platypus is an evolutionary anomaly — starting on land, then returning to water.

A toxic algal bloom linked with marine deaths across South Australia has grown to an unprecedented scale and will only be ...

Three local men managed to return the distressed animal from a sand bank into deeper water after an almost hour-long rescue effort on Tuesday near the coastal town of Ardrossan in South Australia ...

Australia’s oceans are a treasure trove of the weird, wild and wonderful — home to some of the ... left "terrified" after ...

Three local men managed to return the distressed animal from a sand bank into deeper water after an almost hour-long rescue effort on Tuesday near the coastal town of Ardrossan in South Australia ...