They also offer an opportunity to measure influences of climate change in the absence of human impacts. By studying fossils, often preserved as isolated pieces of bone, it’s possible to find out how ...

A reintroduction ecologist recently captured rare footage of a giant carpet python in Gawler Ranges National Park, according ...

Southwestern carpet pythons generally prefer coastal, woodland, or grassland habitats. Encounters in Gawler Ranges National ...

An oft-quoted fact about the inland taipan is that it could kill 250,000 mice or 100 adult humans with the venom of a single ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

As players shook hands, Taipans import Admiral Schofield clashed with Wildcats star Jo Lual-Acuil and Lat Mayen - a former ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

An Australian boy died after being told to "sleep off" his venomous snake bite. Don't do that if one of Ohio's three venomous ...

Queensland is the most biologically diverse territory in Australia, home to over 50% of its reptile species. Here are its ...