Storms brought 30 inches of rain to areas near Sydney recently, and some residents have seen their homes flooded for the third or fourth time in 16 months.

But in an astonishing feat, one emperor penguin, alone and malnourished, recently made landfall on a beach in Australia, more than 2,000 miles away from its native Antarctica.

Scientists found animals with a “ladder-like” pattern in woodlands of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Conrad Hoskin Hidden under the cover of night and nestled ...

The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, and tapir-like marsupials only 50,000 years ago.

Summer in the sunburnt country can be a brutal cauldron of heat and humidity — and not just for its human inhabitants. Unlike us, a lot of Australia's animals cannot sweat to keep cool. But ...

Hundreds of rare Australian animals have been released into a secret location, a two-hour walk through a rugged national park landscape. With fewer than 1,200 mature northern corroboree frogs ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms to its official list of species living on the continent. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

Newhaven, north west of Alice Springs, is a time machine, offering glimpses of an Australia that existed before Europeans arrived.Credit: Nick Moir At a glance, nothing about the fence makes ...

Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures of how species are faring. To save Australia’s animals, scientists ...

To save Australia’s animals, scientists must count how many are left. But what if they’re getting it wrong?