Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land with terrifying megafauna: ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in Australia in 1991, but following a world-first genetic rescue program, ...

Australia just welcomed back a once-extinct animal in world-first programme ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

The bandicoot was extinct in the wild in 1991, but the marsupial has now been “bred for survival” and will be released across ...

Scientists say they have unearthed Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light on ancient reptiles that may have hunted prey by dropping on them from trees. The ...

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A new study describing the discovery of rare platypus fossils has shed some light on the evolutionary history of one of Earth ...