The new Bribie Island breakthrough is now large enough for boats to travel through, while there are fears that animals ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds ...

More than 30 political parties will contest the election in Australia and most are minor ones. Here's a guide to the key ...

In the late 20th century, the Chicken McNugget became an icon of fast-food cost efficiency. The peculiar cuisine’s history is one of fascinating technological innovation as well as brutal labor ...

What happened when the activist and the chicken factory-farmer joined forces? They exposed the lies behind the ‘humane’ ...

Organic certifier Australian Organic Ltd has asked for right of reply to UQ Professor Ian Godwin’s recent opinion piece ...

In Canada, the government has committed to transition marine salmon farming near British Columbia to onshore operations by ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

New maps released this week document the world’s largest land mammal migration, revealing the seasonal journeys of more than ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...