An outback-inspired garden recently turned heads at London’s Chelsea Flower Show, and the Aussie flora on show might just be ...

It was the first legislation in Australia that enabled First Nations peoples to claim land rights for Country where traditional ownership could be proven. For almost 200 years, First Nations peoples ...

NAIDOC Week has become a modern celebration of First Nations history, culture and achievements. But its beginnings were ...

Six months after conservationists used drone technology in a mouse-eradication project on a remote Western Australian island, ...

While shark-spotter drones are a genuine advance in shark detection, they’re not foolproof. Sharks are front of mind for many ...

In an unprecedented example of hunting specialisation, the ballista spider has evolved a silk-powered snare that targets just ...

"Antarctic krill sustain the entire Southern Ocean food chain. So why are we harvesting them to stock pharmacy shelves?," ...

A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be.

Wildlife authorities and advocates remain cautiously hopeful that Australia can still avoid a widespread and devastating outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu, despite Australia recording its first confirmed ...

Beautifully attuned to a life underwater, sharks have patrolled the oceans for more than 400 million years. While more than 400 species of sharks are found worldwide today, about 170 of them inhabit ...

Before colonisation, many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages thrived across Australia. Now, just over a dozen are learned as a first language. Estimates of exactly how many ...

An almost-hidden dale in the secluded Glenelg River valley, in south-western Victoria, lies a cluster of buildings that seems, at first sight, to resemble a small 19th‑century village. Set amid hilly ...