One of Canberra's rarest residents, the grassland earless dragon, is being given a new lease on life with clay homes built to help the critically endangered species survive another scorching summer.

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A Lone Pine tree and strawberry plants are among vegetation abruptly cleared from a central Victorian school as part of a state government tree removal program.

While the Anthropocene is a term most of us are well aware of, it is not an official geological epoch. Now a group of scientists has reignited the push to get it formally recognised.

A notoriously windy stretch of road in Tasmania could be upgraded with pricing revealed to be as high as $2.7 billion to re-route the road.

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Warrnambool's Maremma guardian dogs, as seen in the movie Oddball, have not stayed a night on Middle Island for two years.

Why Canberra's birds are just like the locals who live here.

Inbreeding could lead to extinction of an endangered owl on a remote island.

The state of the park, and several broken promises around its unrealised reopening, have caused frustration. And anyone still hoping the water park will feature in their summer plans will be left high...

The Northern Territory's tiny crocs are freshwater crocodiles not a separate species. Despite this, some scientists think the crocs are unique and need special protection.

High demand for tickets on the brand-new Spirit of Tasmania ferries has resulted in 150,000 visits to its booking system, crashing the website.

For centuries, our understanding of nations across the globe has been laid out by a single map projection of the world. The United Nations just voted to change that.

Travellers hoping to jump on the new Spirit of Tasmania ferries with their cars and caravans in the coming months may have to wait, with bookings still limited to the capacity of the current ships. Bu...

The Spirit of Tasmania ferry service between Tasmania and the mainland will take no paying passengers for a week in late October as new ships are tested.

Where would you find the Big Penguin? And Vientiane is the capital of which South-East Asian country?

More than 200 experts meet on Phillip Island to share penguin research from across the globe.

The Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean due to the psychological risk posed by a potential outbreak of bird flu at the ...

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A suspected case of bird flu has been detected in a seal at a key breeding ground, a day after Australia's first case of the virus in a mammal was confirmed.

The team vaccinating Phillip Island's little penguin population against bird flu administers more than 1,000 H5N1 doses to the vulnerable birds.

After years of delays and cost blowouts, Spirit of Tasmania IV has arrived in its home port of Devonport for testing ahead of October sailings.

Despite their scale, we know surprisingly little about mass mortality events — from bird flu and other triggers — and their longer-term ecological consequences.

Three mass bird mortality events believed to be linked to the H5N1 avian flu strain have been recorded on islands off SA. In a separate event, more than two dozen penguins have been found dead in Tasm...

Overview of the Secret Harbour electorate in the Secret Harbour by-election 2026

Wildlife officers aim to save a famous penguin colony from bird flu, but the spread of the virus has dealt their plans a significant blow.

After seeing off a rival at auction, a British collector says he is now in possession of a "holy grail" — a mounted thylacine head. But the item almost went unnoticed, listed as a 'fox head'.

A Phillip Island penguin has died from H5N1 bird flu in the first detection among the island's little penguin colony, ahead of vaccinations beginning on Monday.

A native water mammal once dismissed as a "water rat" is quietly thriving in Melbourne's waterways, according to a new University of Melbourne mapping project.

Which of Tasmania's unique animal species is most at risk from H5 bird flu, and what is being done to protect them?

The targeted vaccination of 5,000 penguins is claimed to be the largest wild bird vaccination program undertaken globally.