Photoluminescence and fluorescence in fur were described in the 1700s and have been seen in mammals across landscapes in the ...

Australia’s gentle koalas are on the verge of extinction. Several factors contribute to this but what are governments and ...

Marsupial moles are small, blind and hairy – and rarely seen by humans. But new photographs of the burrowing mammal are generating excitement in northern Australia, as they provide a close-up ...

The thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back - but it was actually a marsupial, the type of Australian mammal that raises its young in a pouch. The group of ...

In the remote Queensland outback, a marsupial bigger than a mouse but smaller than a rat scampers inconspicuously ... Baker says there are 19 native Australian dunnart species, and the elusive ...

Colossal Biosciences, which intends to create proxy species of the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, claims it has ...

The tiger, also known as Thylacine, was a wolf-like carnivorous marsupial, about the size of a large dog, who once used to ...

CANBERRA: Wild populations of Australian endangered animals will be vaccinated against a deadly strain of bird flu in an ...

Have you ever paused to think about the athletic abilities of Australian wildlife? Let’s look at some of our best competitors ...

Australia plans to halt the loss of any more species and end its status as "the mammal extinction capital ... the Australian sea lion and the rarest marsupial in the world, Gilbert's Potoroo ...

The bird-flu strain has spread through bird and mammal populations worldwide, but not yet reached the island continent.

Bilbies, bandicoots, bettongs and quolls once dominated these arid plains and they are now reclaiming the area, thanks to a team of scientists trying to address Australia's mammal extinction rate ...