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Study rules out termites as potential cause of these strange patterns

Like the Great Barrier Reef, scientists say the mountain frog's ecosystem is in a precarious position which could lead to a World Heritage "In Danger" classification.

School students from across Australia have collected hundreds of insects for scientists as part of a quest to discover new species — and if one is found, they'll get the honour of naming it.

Paris (AFP) - Delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in Montreal next week to hammer out a new global biodiversity deal to protect ecosystems and species from further human destruction.

There are only 250 to 350 regent honeyeaters left in the wild. With numbers so low, conservationists are finding new ways to teach young birds their unique love song.

Between now and the end of the century, thousands of square kilometres of permanently ice-free habitat is going to spread out across Antarctica, unlocking new habitats for natives and pests.

The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week is the longest-running cable television series in history, filling screens with sharky content every summer since 1988. It causes one of the largest temporary increases in U.S. viewers’ attention to any science or conservation topic.

A 10LB sea bass has been found in a London river in what experts attribute to efforts to clean-up the capital’s waterways.

A submersible off the coast of Western Australia chanced upon a 45-metre-long deep-sea siphonophore arranged in a feeding spiral, trailing its deadly tentacles

They are also found to 'growl like death metal singers'

This 180-year-old fish is among the first Australian fish of its kind ever to be known to western science, and a refresh of its nomenclature to reflect its Aboriginal name at both the Natural History Museum in London and the National Museum in Scotland will recognise the contribution of traditional…