These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from ...

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

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

Found in Australia and New Guinea ... it is believed that dolphins and whales evolved from land animals and share lineage with hippos. But there are few examples that show evolution from water ...

Red kangaroos are the largest land mammals in Australia. The largest kangaroo species, red kangaroos, can reach heights of up ...

When most people imagine the Australian landscape, visions of sunburnt plains, ancient forests, and wildflowers spring to ...