Australia has crossed another grim threshold in its H5N1 bird flu outbreak. For the first time, the virus has infected an Australian mainland ...

Seal found dead at Beachport in South Australia on Wednesday follows three mass mortality events in terns ...

Australia's first case of bird flu in a mammal has been confirmed following testing of a long-nosed fur seal found in South ...

The researchers argue that earlier members of the crocodile lineage were likely warm-blooded for a significant period.

A new climate-focused campaign group, 4 Billion Dead, has launched in response to a buried report that its name could become ...

A fossil left on a remote Arctic island in 1948 has revealed Arctobatrachus urdensis, a previously unknown Triassic predator.

Three mass mortality events, involving a total of more than 1,000 greater crested terns, were detected in South Australia on ...

Scores of researchers and scientific groups have been warning that research toward the creation of mirror life should not be conducted. Not everyone is convinced.

When most South Africans hear “wildlife crime”, they think of rhino horn or abalone. But in the last five years, another ...

Heller's 2012 novel about a man who survives a super flu that kills most of humanity is now being adapted to film. Adventure writer Heller drew from his own life. Originally broadcast in 2012.

A document endorsed by 17 experts has warned that Earth is facing a future of mass extinction, declining health and climate ...

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most ...