Living like mammals in a land without them, Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless birds are an evolutionary enigma.

Officers in Barnstable, Massachusetts, received a surprising call on Wednesday for an escaped emu. The large, flightless bird ...

New Australian research shows bumblebees can learn and recognise rhythmic patterns across different tempos and even across ...

On Truwana/Cape Barren Island off the northeast coast of Tasmania, several rarely seen animals were captured on camera for ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...

Birds have, for centuries, been captured from the wild to be kept in cages – valued for their looks, songs and ability to imitate sounds. Data compiled by the Convention on International Trade in ...

Buttonbush is a beautiful, low-maintenance native shrub that blooms all summer and thrives in wet, sunny spots. It’s a magnet ...

Every year, thousands of giant spider crabs (Leptomithrax gaimardii) aggregate in Port Phillip Bay, an enormous inlet on the ...

The fastest terrestrial mammal in Australia is the red kangaroo which can clock up a top speed of around 56 kmph (34 mph) over shorter distances. And its ability to hop is an incredibly efficient way ...