Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows a life reconstruction of a reptile that left footprints which fossilized in sandstone found on the banks of ...

It's an early morning in January and we're walking through a patch of native heathy woodland in southwest Victoria, a few kilometers west of the town of Casterton, known as the birthplace of the ...

The domestic cat arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, introduced as a familiar companion and a practical way to ...

Ecosystems around the world rely on reptiles and amphibians. They play a crucial role as part of the food web—as predator and prey—and, sometimes, a role in pollination and dispensing seeds. Frogs ...

Feral cats are an ecological scourge, wreaking havoc on wild mammal, bird, and reptile populations. That doesn’t make the impact of these rogue floof monsters on Australia’s reptile population any ...

The size of the funnel-web spider donated to an anti-venom program in Australia is being compared to that of a tarantula A large funnel-web spider donated to an anti-venom program in Australia has ...

An endangered reptile which had gone unnoticed for decades is one of the rarest reptiles in all of Australia. According to recent discoveries by scientists and conservationists, the Kungaka Skink, ...

The animal was born to Ash, who herself was the first koala born after the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She ...

Australia is known for its rare and interesting critters. Some can be frightening and venomous, while others are intimidating but innocuous. Australia's isolation from other landmasses ensures that ...

Cats take a hefty toll on Australia’s reptiles – killing an estimated 649 million of them every year, including threatened species – according to our new research published in the journal Wildlife ...

Action came too late for the Christmas Island forest skink, despite early warnings of significant declines. It was lost from the wild before it was officially listed as “threatened”, and the few ...