In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies." The role of these "enemies" ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . Reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...

A new marsupial species belonging to what scientists call the world’s “cutest and fiercest” mammal group has been discovered in Australia. Planigale petrophila is named after the rocky slopes of the ...

HOW would you describe Australian mammals? My work involves regularly talking to people about them. When I say that platypuses’ duck-like bills can detect the electrical impulses controlling the ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have only been scientifically recognized in the past 25 years. Other than the ...

Almost a dozen native mammals in northern Australia could become extinct in the next decade, scientists say. NORTHERN AUSTRALIA’S NATIVE MAMMALS are under serious threat, with 10 on track to become ...

Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else – consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or the red kangaroo. But did you know our understanding of this continent’s incredible mammalian ...

The collection of mammals now found in Australia is the most unusual and diverse group of mammals found anywhere on Earth. Contrary to the popular conception, half of the mammals native to Australia ...