Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a large black spider on a piece of wood. Australia hosts a dizzying array of venomous creatures — including spiders, snakes ...

The Australian Reptile Park is pleased to unveil two baby echidnas to the public. The short-beaked echidna puggles were born ...

Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land with terrifying megafauna: ...

The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after the population dwindled to just 60 living in a ...

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Beyond the majestic Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia is also home to some of the most unique wildlife ...

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

Wildlife crime may sound like something that happens far away in dense jungles or on the high seas, but it is an increasingly serious problem in Australia’s own backyard. Native animals and plants are ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

A passenger spotted a living Australian brushtail possum peering out from among the kangaroos on the shelf at the shop at Hobart Airport in Tasmania.