Mahogany gliders were forgotten by science for a century before they were rediscovered on the North Queensland coastline, but ...

Two endangered Maugean skates have been returned to Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour after more than two years in captivity. But the harbour they call home remains dangerously degraded.

Numbats, Western Australia's animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population was growing in the wild.

An alpine ash forest is a sight to behold. Alpine ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) is a tall eucalypt species that grows in the cool, wet mountains of south‑eastern Australia. These forests store large ...

More and more Australian species are being listed as critically endangered – the final stage before extinction in the wild. Hundreds of species of plants and animals are now at this point. For a ...

University of Queensland researchers are calling for reforms to Australia's environmental laws, as threatened fish species continue to be legally exported. Their work has identified four species that ...

Koalas were officially declared endangered Friday in eastern Australia. This comes as the marsupials continue to fall prey to chlamydia and lose their habitats to land clearing and climate change.

While birds are the most likely victims of the deadly strain of bird flu, researchers are also sounding the alarm for native mammals and marsupial species. These are some of the steps being taken to ...