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A decade ago, there were more than 1,600 little blue penguins on the Granite Island of Australia, but now only 30 are left.
Heard Island is a land of fire and ice, home to Australia's only active volcano, with 12 major glaciers carving through the ...
A bird expert says it appears to have leucism, which affects about one in 30,000 birds and is often confused with albinism.
In Pakistan’s Cholistan Desert, a group of rare birds was recently documented by wildlife photographer Syed Rizwan Mehmood.
When Lola Greeno enrolled to study for an Associate Diploma of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in the 1990s and was ...
This year, the Australian Antarctic Division will lead expeditioners and scientists working with the Australian Antarctic ...
Australia is home to some of the most remarkable species on Earth and importantly, many of these species don't exist anywhere else.
But in 2023, a genetic study reclassified another marsupial, the long-tailed dunnart (previously Sminthopsis longicaudata), as a second species under Antechinomys (A. longicaudatus).
While out on the beach this week for my regular Beachcombing survey, I spotted several striking jellyfish drifting ashore — Australian white spotted jellyfish, an invasive species that’s now ...
Incredible footage has captured the moment a 1kg native Australian predator attacked a 200g invasive black rat. The aggressor in the video is a rakali, a semi-aquatic native rodent species that ...
A weeding project gives little penguins a helping hand on an island off WA's south coast where an invasive weed can grow up to three times taller than the little birds.
Penguin Random House Children’s UK has signed two new epic fantasy romance novels from Australia’s number one bestselling YA author Lynette Noni.