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 ...

You probably know about the Tasmanian devil. You might even know about its smaller, less-famous relative, the spotted-tailed quoll. But these are far from the only meat-eating marsupials. Australia is ...

While Australia is home to some of the most impressive wildlife, it is also home to a sad fact. Being in complete isolation has its pros and cons. The benefits are extraordinary flora and fauna that ...

A pair of mammals previously unknown to science have been discovered in a forest in Australia, according to a new study. The research, published in Nature's Scientific Reports, notes that a pair of ...

"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 ...

"It's really exciting to find this biodiversity under our noses." A new study reveals that DNA testing uncovered two more greater glider marsupial species. Bonnie Burton Journalist Bonnie Burton ...

Giant prehistoric kangaroos and wombatlike creatures the size of hippopotamuses were not killed off by human hunters but by climate change and starvation, an Australian study has found. The study, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...