From a big bird. I stand up and look around. I’m in the Daintree Rainforest, two hours’ drive up the coast from the seaside city of Cairns, in the far north of Australia. Here and there ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ... [+] pressures. But they will continue to perish if we don ...

Movie"Ratites (Gigantic birds), waterfowl, pigeons and doves, birds of prey, shore birds, night birds, kingfishers, parrots and cockatoos, ducks and geese." Near 140 birds filmed all over the ...

True to its name, this extraordinary conflict saw armed soldiers pitted against emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae), large flightless birds native to the Australian outback. The result? A decisive ...

Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures ...

She’s done a safari in Africa. “I’m a big bird-watcher,” she said, with 2,006 life birds. Australia was a natural choice because it has 850 species of birds, 450 of which are found only in ...