When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...

The seizure of dozens of live Western blue-tongued lizards, bearded dragons and spiny-tailed skinks covertly packed into popcorn bags, biscuit tins and women’s handbags have led to the longest prison ...

For years, Queensland authorities have been broadscale baiting fire ants. But the infestation is too big – and the baits wipe ...

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

On February 13, a New South Wales District Court sentenced 61-year-old Neil Simpson to eight years in jail for attempting to ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Citizen scientists uncover dinosaur toe bones and claws along Australia’s southern coast, sharpening insight into ancient polar life.

K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that ...

Australia tells consumers no need to panic buy petrol over Iran war as stocks high Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday that consumers did not need to panic about fuel shortages amid ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.