In Australia’s mangrove-lined mudflats and estuaries live armour-plated mud-dwellers with massive bone-crunching claws.

Australia woke to news this morning that NASA's latest spacecraft launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center was a huge ...

The Kimberley is beautiful any time of year, but from March to May – waterfall season – it is even more spectacular.

After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a ...

This patch of remnant bush on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt is a place loved by one of Australia’s rarest bird ...

When dead animals are left in nature, who takes advantage of the free feed – carnivores or herbivores? The answer may ...

Fishes were the first vertebrate animals with jaws, they were also the first to yawn. Many species of fishes (and some sharks ...

After less than 60 per cent of the country’s eligible voters turned out for the 1922 federal election, the Australian ...

What started as a study to better understand how lobsters prey on sea urchins instead discovered sharks also predate on the ...

Louisa Atkinson and her mother, Charlotte, were among Australia’s earliest authors, and pioneers in women’s rights.

Koala numbers have halved in the past 20 years… We must turn this trend around and instead double the number of east-coast ...

My previous Treading Lightly column was about how, when I was a youngster, a malleefowl helped me understand the importance ...