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

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

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have only been scientifically recognized in the past 25 years. Subscribe to our ...

"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 ...

16 December, 2022, Sydney: Australia, home to the most unusual animal species on the planet that defy imagination, can now lay claim to being the wellspring of modern mammal evolution. Published in ...

Noel D Preece received funding from The Nature Conservancy for work that led to this article. He is a member of the Spectacled Flying-fox Recovery Team. He has worked in northern Australia since the ...

Emmi van Harten received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, Australian Speleological Federation Karst Conservation Fund, Holsworth Wildlife Research ...

The rare slider skink is an elusive species of reptile, found only in Australia. It's only the second of its kind to be ...

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HOW would you describe Australian mammals? My work involves regularly talking to people about them. When I say that platypuses’ duck-like bills can detect the electrical impulses controlling the ...

Australia, home to the most unusual animal species on the planet that defy imagination, can now lay claim to being the wellspring of modern mammal evolution. Published in the Australasian Journal of ...