Australian rock art discovery depicts thylacines using white clay, indicating that they were painted within the last 1,000 ...

Around 14 new rock-art depictions of thylacines, also known as Tasmanian tigers, have been found in northern Australia.

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ...

The earth is charred and the acrid smell of toxic smoke still hangs in the air of the Australian eucalyptus forest. Somewhere ...

Biologists think tropical animals can’t really adapt when the environment changes – a new study challenges that view.

Discover 25 random facts that are too strange to Google! Dive into bizarre truths about history, science, and nature that ...

Red-eye flights and long travel days certainly get a bad rap, but they’re also necessary—at least, if you want to visit ...

Though spacecraft with artificial gravity are still a distant dream, we had proof of concept way back in September 1966.

Australia increased protected land but many species still lack protection. The study shows why location matters more than ...

Source: Fly By Night/Google Earth Investigations are underway after reports that masses of roosting grey-headed flying foxes ...

Nigel Andrew is an editor of Austral Ecology and subject editor (Zoology) for PeerJ. He played no part in the double-blind peer-review process of the Austral Ecology research paper this article draws ...