When you think of carnivorous marsupials, you probably picture the Tasmanian devil or perhaps a spotted-tailed quoll. But these famous predators are only the largest members of a remarkable family of ...

The extinct thylacine had a skull unlike that of wolves, foxes or any other living mammalian predator, despite its famously ...

In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or early ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When fire swept across 95% of its habitat, a few handfuls ...

Deep in the heart of Martu Country lies Karlamilyi National Park. Red rock and red sand stretch as far as the eye can see. Within some of these rocky outcrops, live a small population of wiminyji ...

More than 4,000 species have been introduced at last count. Of these, 3,000 are sufficiently out of control to be considered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo is of a pair of Thylacines, a male and female, received from Dr. Goding in 1902. The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus ...

More than 30 camera traps in Australia’s Litchfield National Park recorded no northern quolls during nearly a year of ...

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, were about half the size scientists once estimated them to be. This development has suggested that the now-extinct marsupials were about the size of ...

Now conservationists are working to change that. Recently, 150 bilbies were released back into the wild at Currawinya ...