As the world’s oceans continue to get noisier with human-made sound, scientists have discovered pilot whales are having to ...

An underground disaster in northern Tasmania 20 years ago led to one of Australia’s most extraordinary rescues.

Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA’s regionally extinct species was its own distinctive ...

Browse Island, a tiny bump in the sea off the coast of Western Australia, has become the focus of a world-first attempt to ...

Making compost is a cornerstone of sustainable gardening, yet few of us understand the great science behind it.

Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve so much and touch so many lives.

These moisture-loving snakes can exist in some of the wettest and coldest parts of the country and although venomous, they are shy and rarely bite without being continuously provoked. The three ...

You won’t come within cooee of a honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) unless you’re in the south-west of Western Australia. It’s not that some vast historic distribution range has contracted to a corner ...

When conservationists began re-planting koala habitat at a site near the Moorabool River, in Victoria’s central west, it was ...

Until now, the evolution of the Twelve Apostles has not been well known. Every year, millions of visitors stand at the clifftop lookouts along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road and gaze out at the Twelve ...