A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction might not stack up, according to ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...
Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...
Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.
The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...
“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...
It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...
Scientists warn that, as oceans rise, plants and animals with nowhere to go could experience the same fate as the Bramble Cay ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...
New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.