SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

A litter of four Western quolls, or Chuditch, was found in the pouch of mother Honey Jumble, who was part of the first ...

A bear-like creature surprised tourists in Australia by wandering onto the beach during the day and wading into the water, a video shows. The animal’s “unusual” behavior baffled experts. During their ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew, officially declared extinct. This tiny insect-eating ...

A remote island at the very northern tip of Australia has been revealed as a tropical refuge for three species new-to-science ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.

In only a handful of places on the Australian coast, one species of dolphin has been seen donning sea sponges as headwear in ...

A couple visiting a beach in Tasmania saw a wombat wading into water to forage, an “unusual” behavior that baffled experts, a video shows. Screengrabs from a Facebook video shared by the Wombat ...