Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world’s first mammal known to have become extinct due to “human-induced climate change,” the government says. The Bramble ...

Getty Image While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete ...

Of the 84 mammal species that are known to have gone extinct since the 1500s, 35 percent are from Australia, a new study finds. Since the 1840s — less than 60 years after the arrival of Europeans — ...

Australia’s only native shrew species, the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), has officially been declared extinct, according to the latest IUCN Red List update for 2025. This announcement ...

"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . Reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...

Riversleigh and Naracoorte, situated in the north and south respectively of eastern Australia, are among the world’s 10 greatest fossil sites. They are a superb illustration of the key stages of ...

(CNN) — A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world’s first mammal known to have become extinct due to “human-induced climate change,” the government says. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A small brown rat which lived on a tiny ...