Photographer Kristian Laine was freediving recently off the southernmost island of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef when a bright pink manta ray glided by. He thought for sure that his camera was ...

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 moths emerge from their larval stage with the tools to make this journey, but no one knows how the 1-inch-long moths navigate their way to the caves. Scientists previously fou ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of shark with bizarre, human-like molars that it uses to smash down on prey. The new species, named painted hornshark (Heterodontus marshallae ...

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.