A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The now-submerged continental shelf was a vast, habitable landscape for much ...

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Even though Australia is far from the edges of tectonic plates, the continent is still being squeezed and stressed by the large forces at those distant plate boundaries.

Injustice tells of Australia’s colonial and ongoing dispossession of its native animals and nature, every bit as brutal and thorough as the dispossession of the continent’s native peoples.

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer.

Australia’s Oldest Known Bird Tracks Are 120 Million Years Old In that age, the continent was attached to Antarctica, but migrating animals still traveled to the polar region for sustenance ...