In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major challenge [has been] discovering bones that contain [enough] collagen to ...

The humpback whale is one of 29 Australian threatened animal species to have made a recovery. Credit: Todd Cravens/Wikimedia commons They include well-loved animals such as humpback whales, Murray ...

An implant that makes Australian animals lethally poisonous to cats that prey on them could help save species on the verge of extinction. Cats have had a devastating impact on Australia’s ...

To compare it to any European animal would be impossible, as it had not the least resemblance of any one I have seen. Its fore legs are extremely short and of no use to it in walking, its hind ...

In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of ...