Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le ...

So why did his paintings of the dingo and kangaroo — some of the earliest European representations of Australian animals — look so strange? Stubbs had not travelled with the 1768 Endeavour ...

Australia hosts a dizzying array of venomous creatures — including spiders, snakes, jellyfish, octopuses, ants, bees and even platypuses. But why do so many Australian animals wield this bioweapon?

But Morton has an idea for how to save the rats that remain: Ditch their European names and reclaim them as uniquely Australian creatures. (Bearcat? Catshark? These 9 animals have misleading names.) ...