Archaeologists thought they found wires buried on a farm. It was actually Viking treasure. You've Probably Never Seen These ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, ...

Within a forested limestone landscape of Papua New Guinea lives a shy, striking bird that’s new to science. This bird is also ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

The world has some of the most unique species of animals, but Australia may take the top prize. It is cut off from the rest of the world’s land masses, has been for millions of years, and its ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

But for David, Australia’s almost 100 species of native mistletoe are worth celebrating all year round. “We’ve got representations of lineages [of mistletoe] that date right back to Gondwana days. So, ...

Doug Gimesy’s extreme close-ups of ‘sky puppies’ are designed to trigger an emotional response that endears people to the ‘wrongly vilified’ mammals ...

Commercial fishers are no longer able to catch demersal fish along a nine-hundred-kilometer stretch of Western Australia’s ...

The Australian city’s home-grown food scene is going from strength to strength, with in-water oyster experiences and garden ...

Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...

As many as 25,000 free-ranging dogs roam the cold, high-altitude desert of Ladakh, India. That’s a problem for wildlife and ...