A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia's Kangaroo Island, experts ...

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

English investigators are working to understand the circumstances that led to a rare albino wallaby becoming lost in a small ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with Zoo Atlanta and Georgia Aquarium to rehome confiscated wildlife in Georgia.

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of ...

Baleen whales are unique and breathtaking animals and are known for undertaking some of the longest migrations in the world.

When a wildlife organization in South Australia found a leucistic penguin stranded on a beach, they knew she needed help — ...

Conservationists releasing woylies into the wild warn they have a habit of launching like rockets. But do they normally do ...

Female bonobos linked up even when they didn’t have close ties, supporting one another against the males and cementing their ...

In March, a massive bushfire burned more than 5,400 acres in the park, which injured some koalas and destroyed a great deal ...

Other animals, however, do the opposite ... The blue morpho eats mud and soft, rotting fruits. Blue morphos are not ...