Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Fly above the ancient, immense beauty of the Daintree Rainforest, Australia, with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the world's oldest living tropical rainforest, gliding over its dense, unbroken ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

The two marsupials were found living in the remote rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea.

New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...

Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

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

Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian ...

A crocodile has been caught in an Australian creek on the temperate east coast far from the species' tropical habitat.

Three striking new species of rock-dwelling monitor lizards have been formally described from the savannas of northeastern ...