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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Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have ...

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 ...

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

A Victorian timber company is using what's been dubbed a "zombie" license from 1977 to log critically endangered mountain ash forest, including the habitat of the Leadbeater's possum, which was ...

Western Pygmy Possum: Spoon-sized: Around 10 grams: Speckled Padloper Tortoise: 8–10 cm: Not specified: ... This spoon-shaped marsupial found in Australia is a nectar-eating specialist.