A strange fossil skull found in a cave in western Australia has helped scientists identify a completely unknown koala species ...

A small marsupial thought to have been extinct for decades has recently been filmed in northern Australia. This rediscovery has rekindled hope for local biodiversity and conservation programs. A ...

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The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in Australia in 1991, but following a world-first genetic rescue program, ...

The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators. The charismatic marsupials are the closest living relatives of ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen Arman Muharmansyah/Australian Museum Two marsupials ...

Eastern barred bandicoots were once considered extinct on mainland Australia, but conservationists are determined to give them a “fighting chance”. A species once declared extinct on mainland ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...