For many of us, dogs are our best friends. But have you wondered what would happen to your dog if we suddenly disappeared? Can...

‘Songs of Disappearance’, a still taken from the animation by Mervyn Street & Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman. The Bowerbird Collective, Author provided (no reuse) Australia is losing its birds...

Image: Zoos Victoria Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley is reportedly poised to decide whether some koala populations should be listed as endangered, as new research shows her...

The critically endangered regent honeyeater. Friends of Chiltern, Author provided In the 250 years since Europeans colonised Australia, native birdlife has disappeared across the continent. Our new research has,...

  Image: Shutterstock Dingoes are often demonised as a danger to livestock, while many consider them a natural and essential part of the environment. But is our...

  Image: Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the...

  Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek Australia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...

Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, not only smashed box office expectations, but forever changed the way...

      This, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided   When we opened a box supplied by museum curators,...

  Picture: Alex Asbury/AAP Australia is globally renowned for its abysmal conservation record – in roughly 230 years we’ve overseen the extinction of more mammal species than...