Habitat loss is a big one, and so is climate change, which is one of the dynamics making wildfires more frequent and damaging ...

In a marine park called Bremer Canyon, off the coast of Bremer Bay in western Australia, a large group of more than 60 orcas ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

Fossils can tell scientists what extinct animals looked like and what their environment was like. But what about their diet?

Rangers on Lungtalanana Island off the coast of Tasmania in Australia were ecstatic after an echidna was caught on a trail camera.

Conservationists and journalists say they’re being threatened with legal action after raising questions about the impact of ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

There's still a tiny population on the Central Coast, and an occasional individual will turn up in places like this, one ...

There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

The brush-tailed bettong — also known as the yalgiri or woylie — is a small marsupial that has seen a steep population ...

Then there’s the mountain pygmy possum, a tiny marsupial from Australia that emerges from hibernation ... The same principles ...