Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

The Minns Labor Government has secured the future of an important wildlife corridor in the Sutherland Shire with the purchase of more than 30 hectares of ecologically valuable bushland.

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South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix—move it. Three separate populations were shifted from the ...

When Aussies look up into the sky at the end of winter, there will be a noticeable difference from what we saw a decade ago.

Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) fly up 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to take shelter in the handful of high-altitude caves that stay cold enough for them through the heat of the Australian summer. Flying ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

This Australian moth may be the 1st insect ever discovered to use stars for long-distance navigation. ... as food for pygmy possums and all sorts of birds during the summer months." ...

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the Milky Way to navigate hundreds of kilometers across the country during ...