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

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

Australia needs to urgently prioritize state and national conservation policies, according to a new study, with the findings ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. Australia has over 750 ...

Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an increase in the number of infected mammals. Avian influenza or bird flu ...

Colossal’s newly launched non-profit Colossal Foundation announced a $1.5 million grant today to the University of Melbourne to fund its genomics work on Australian bird species. The money will ...

nocturnal bird—once thrived in Australia’s outback. The arrival of colonists and feral predators, however, brought about an almost catastrophic decline in the species’s population in the ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped ... and until now only tens of the bird species were thought to exist. However, a new study, published in the journal CSIRO Wildlife Research, revealed ...

For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis ... the forests and grasslands of Australia on muscular legs.

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 ...