Known as the ‘Grand Old Duchess’, Hotel Darwin survived the city’s bombing during World War II and Cyclone Tracy before its ...

All the essential information you need about Australia’s unique flora and fauna.

Back around 1994, the apparently innocuous decision to treat arthritic cattle with a painkiller brought vultures in India to ...

The Australian magpie has swooped to victory as the most common bird sighted throughout Australia’s backyards, parks and ...

The discovery of human bones on Western Australia’s Rottnest Island has brought fresh attention to the holiday destination’s ...

A male red pipefish photographed carrying eggs on its trunk has finally resolved a question unanswered by scientists for decades. The red pipefish (Notiocampus ruber) is a rare relative of seahorses ...

Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA’s regionally extinct species was its own distinctive ...

This thoughtfully preserved tin-mining town on the Atherton Tablelands is a delight to explore. Irvinebank is a true rarity. Today home to some 113 people, the town proudly, and justifiably, declares ...

Indigenous Australians were the world’s first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk. I’m a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I ...

A recent review of evidence from the past 129,000 years reveals a dramatic story of extinctions, human encounters, and survival against the odds. The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a ...