Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's ...

The carnivorous marsupial is widely thought to have gone extinct on mainland Australia about 3,000 years ago. Artworks found ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

Archaeologists think some of the paintings may be less than 1,000 years old, even though the animals were thought to have ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

Discover how Indigenous art from less than 1,000 years ago could reshape what we know about the Tasmanian tiger’s disappearance from mainland Australia.

The Earth officially lost at least six species this year, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The list — an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of ...