Wildlife experts will gather on an uninhabited island off Tasmania to vaccinate a colony of wild shy albatrosses against the deadly H5 strain of bird flu.

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Turtles rescued from the Gingham Waterhole in north-west NSW have begun returning, while keepers at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo incubate more than 250 eggs laid by females brought into care.

Five Australian inventions will soon feature on $1 coins as part of the Royal Australian Mint's new Bright Ideas collection.

Once a key Australian predator, northern quoll numbers are now dwindling due to habitat loss and predation. A new program is hoping to give the endangered mammal a future.

In 1996, English TV presenter Alain de Cadenet asked legendary New Zealand born fighter pilot Ray Hana, who was 70-years-old, to do a low pass in this Spitfire fighter plane as de Cadenet spoke to the...

Integrative genomic, ecological and morphological analyses reveal four distinct species of gentoo penguins across the Southern Ocean.

Before the new Western Sydney International Airport and the terminal at Mascot, there was Rose Bay in Sydney's east, which had a golden age of aviation via flying boats.

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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.