11, 2024 — A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species ...

The brush-tailed bettong once inhabited most of Australia, but these days it lives in a tiny fraction of its former range.

Let's talk about the funnel web spider, one of the most notorious arachnids in the world. Known for their fast-acting venom, ...

A total of 732 Australians (243 men and 214 women) were named in the 2025 honour roll, with 457 recognised in the Order of Australia (general division), 196 awarded meritorious medals, and three ...

Home gardens can provide vital habitat for Australian birds. But there's more to it than just planting certain types of ...

Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Lothar Lenz and the life of wasps and honeybees - A summer in the Eifel My home is in the middle of the idyllic Eifel, surrounded by forests, meadows and fields. My ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

Australian scientists have newly classified a bigger species of the Sydney funnel web spider, one of the world's deadliest, ...

By targeting the female mosquitoes themselves rather than their offspring, TMT is the first biocontrol technology that could work as quickly as pesticides without also harming ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

It's not native to Darwin, but a population of six-toothed rainbow skinks appears to be booming in the NT capital. Scientists ...

A fascinating example of this is the newly discovered giant trapdoor spider, Euoplos dignitas, found in Queensland, Australia. A team of researchers from ... Euoplos dignitas, by preying on various ...