Australia is home to some of the most remarkable species on Earth and importantly, many of these species don't exist anywhere ...

Hidden in the long-forgotten personal archives of a 20th-century anatomist was a pair of images depicting an extinct species ...

Cuddly koala bears are adored by people all over the world, even by those who have never seen one in real life. But these ...

While the latest additions to the Los Angeles Zoo don’t look or act much like their Looney Tunes counterpart, they could ...

Scientists in Sydney are restoring seagrass meadows—and helping save the endangered White’s seahorse with custom-built ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed two new Tasmanian devils to the family this month. The zoo said for the first time in five ...

Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, and tapir-like marsupials only 50,000 years ago.

Experts identified the animal as a Leadbeater’s possum, or Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, a critically endangered species “long believed to be extinct in NSW,” officials said.

Our best estimate is that 9,111 invertebrate species have become extinct in Australia since 1788. This dwarfs the current official estimate of the total number of extinctions across all plant and ...

Bob Paddle, the author of "The Last Tasmanian Tiger," views an animatronic version of the extinct carnivore, which could be brought back to life within 10 years.