As climate change and other factors intensify the threats from invasive species, researchers are finding smarter, more connected ways to protect ecosystems ...

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program has begun pushing its treatment zone inward across southeast Queensland, marking a ...

Green tree ants are a dominant species in tropical forests stretching from India to northern Australia. Aggressive, ...

Australia is crawling with fantastically weird marsupials, which arrived 'down under' around 55 million years ago as the ...

Only four transmissible cancers are known, contagious cell lineages that spread between animals. Meet the dog, devil and shellfish cancers behind the catfish.

Now, scientists have discovered that one Australian frog, the green and golden bell frog, Ranoidea aurea, takes this optical trick a step further. It produces a patch of skin that shifts from blue to ...

Paleontologists at the University of New South Wales have described a new genus and species of dasyurid marsupial from the Early Miocene of Australia, offering the first solid evidence that the family ...

Giant squid DNA found in deep canyons off Western Australia reveals rare marine life across waters more than four kilometers below the surface nearby.

Robert Irwin has named the animal he believes is most at risk of going extinct in his lifetime, but says there is still reason for hope even for species on the brink of disappearing forever. The ...

In a rare step few countries have tried, New Zealand is now rushing to vaccinate 300 breeding pairs of its most endangered ...

In the United States, Google's, now Alphabet's, Debug initiative has asked the federal government for permission to release ...

Joy Taylor is coming to the defense of the WNBA in the wake of the Sandy Brondello punishment. The Toronto Tempo head coach ...