Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

Entries have opened for the annual BirdLife Australia Photography Awards with this year’s special theme focusing on raptor ...

As reports of the “war” spread, public fascination grew. People were intrigued by the plucky survivors, who even formed “units” with lookouts to evade capture. Truck drivers who failed to herd emus ...

Lord Howe Island — a speck of land about 370 miles off mainland Australia, home to just a few hundred people — is the breeding ground for tens of thousands of sable shearwaters: dark brown-colored, ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural ... World Heritage List for its volcanic landscape and numerous bird species. It is home to about 44,000 sable shearwaters – also known ...