A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the ...

The Murray crayfish disappeared from large parts of its range over the past 40 years. Now a community-driven reintroduction program is bringing the iconic species back.

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

Now an international team of scientists has confirmed this. The research, published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, identified the three species by analysing specimens from the Australian Museum and the ...

Conservation groups can now share and compare climate adaptation tactics to support threatened species and ecosystems through ...

Now an international team of scientists has confirmed this. The research, published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, identified the three species by analysing specimens from the Australian Museum and the ...

It may shock some people to learn that goldfish can live twice as long as a dog. They’re just one of several fish species ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different ...

Stephanie Loria from LIB. The researchers examined fine morphological traits and genetic data to differentiate the species. Dr. Helen Smith, an arachnologist at the Australian Museum and co-author of ...

Major report shows one third of shark and ray species are endangered, and two thirds of the endangered species are at risk of ...

The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the ...