Scientists are preserving the animals' reproductive cells in liquid nitrogen in a bid to boost genetic diversity in future ...

Approximately 100,000 years ago, koalas faced near extinction due to brutal ice ages. A recent genetic study triumphantly ...

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

Numbats, Western Australia's animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population ...

Five Australian marsupials have been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...

The spidery wattle (Acacia araneosa) is a national treasure. This plant is named for its spidery, leaf-like phyllodes and ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List, the world's most comprehensive global inventory on ...

Australia’s 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires had a devastating impact on the country’s unique flora and fauna, with some estimates putting the death toll at ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has now been found in a second state, South Australia, after earlier being identified in Western Australia. Authorities have confirmed three seabirds have died of ...

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...