The Great Southern Reef is losing its most valuable asset, the Tasmanian giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), but a group of researchers and partners are collaborating to save this vital habitat.
The best specimen ever recovered of the extremely rare night parrot is now on public display at Western Australian Museum – and it’s already led to a scientific breakthrough that can help save the species.
When the first cane toads were brought from South America to Queensland in 1935, many of the parasites that troubled them were left behind. But deep inside the lungs of at least one of those pioneer toads lurked small nematode lungworms.
The good news: 25 Australian birds are now at less risk of extinction. The bad news: 29 are gone and four more might be.
A manufactured lake at the site of the famous Woodford Folk Festival, north-west of Brisbane, is the perfect environment for some rather odd native fish.
Falling populations of Tassie devils – the Apple Isle’s apex predator – are affecting the evolution of spotted-tailed quolls, according to a new study.
In places where we need to protect valuable plants – whether for ecological or economic reasons – local herbivores can cause significant damage.
Australia’s native rodents aren’t as beloved as our marsupials and mammals, and it might be to do with their ugly names.
What the world looks like differs from species to species. Now researchers have developed a way for us to see through the eyes of animals.
Many Australian birds are named after people. But with so many of these historical figures having direct – or indirect – links to violent colonialism, there’s a growing movement advocating for them to be renamed.