Close Encounters of the Bird Kind. A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Government, the Victorian Government and the NSW Government. He is a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council.

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

Australia is the most notorious country on Earth for deadly wildlife. The red continent is thick with venomous snakes and spiders, toothy sharks and crocodiles, baby-eating dingoes, and the cassowary ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Six Australian birds that have not been seen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of ...

A tiny bar-tailed godwit has astounded scientists with a 13,560 km non-stop flight from Alaska to Australia, lasting 11 days. These birds undergo dramatic physical changes, storing fat and shrinking ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to ...