A new study has cast light on the extinction of many of Australia’s kangaroos, challenging beliefs that the world’s changing ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

The skull of a prehistoric "giant goose" has been discovered in Australia. It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) - about five times as much as an emu.

If this is the case, it could help explain why Genyornis went extinct ... On the prehistoric plains of Australia shone a golden age for giant flightless birds. There was the "Demon Duck of ...

South Island takahe—a prehistoric ... bird’s numbers dwindled with the North Island takahe disappearing entirely centuries ago. The South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), declared ...

The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of ...

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable ...

Australian and US scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after ... the fossilised turtle shell sat alongside stuffed birds, insects, lizards and marsupials at the ...

The pines, which fossil records indicate are more than 200 million years old - pre-dating many dinosaurs - were believed extinct until the Wollemi grove was discovered in 1994. It's location has ...