It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

The 2026 finalists for WA’s Australian of the Year Awards, announced this week, showcase the compassion, creativity and quiet ...

Scientists have hypotheses about some of nature's biggest mysteries but are still working on proof. Some beautiful phenomena can't be explained yet.

Often, while watching our favorite shows or movies or even playing an immersive video game, we get completely mesmerized by ...

Helicopters are great for whipping across the state or Bass Strait for a conference. Not so good for finding lost people and ...

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in ...

In some ways, activists have an advantage over farmers, graziers, communities and businesses in that an activist does not ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

Lichens were already widespread more than 410 million years ago, according to a new international study that identifies a ...

In a protected forest of eastern Australia, one of the country's "rarest mammals" wandered past a trail camera, its pouch ...

More than 1,000 were shot from helicopters in Victoria, which critics argue was completed in secrecy. Find out more.