Move over dinosaurs, Australia is pitching its oversized megafauna as its latest “dangerous” tourist attraction.

The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed ...

Narrated by Tom Hiddleston and executive produced by Hollywood film-maker Jon Favreau alongside creative director of the BBC’s Natural History Unit and long-term David Attenborough collaborator Mike ...

Sleep is one of nature's greatest mysteries, and while we humans aim for seven to nine hours a night, some animals take it to ...

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

Koalas are pretty darn cute, but...they aren’t the brightest bulb on the continent. They will only eat eucalyptus leaves off the branch. On a plate, a koala won’t recognize their one and only food.

A sign now warns visitors entering the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve to see koalas that security cameras are in operation. Source: Supplied Coins, a banana peel, and then an apple core were found lying ...

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

Researchers are working on a radical new plan to take back the outback from Australia's most pervasive predators. The aim is to breed “smart” generations of native marsupials that can evade attacks ...

Australia's government was trying to help when it launched a koala reintroduction in an area where the species had become "locally extinct." However, by rushing the process and ignoring expert advice, ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...