An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the ...

Australian Museum taxidermist Katrina McCormick working in her lab. Picture: Supplied “The first time I had to deal with anything quite rank was a dolphin,” Ms McCormick recalls.

At first glance, eastern quolls seem like ordinary marsupials. Native to Tasmania, Australia, they’re the size of house cats ...

A hidden camera in Queensland captures a rare encounter between a young northern wombat and an echidna, revealing valuable ...

The Australian Museum, the country's oldest museum, established in 1827 right here in Old Sydney Town, is the custodian of 21.9 million specimens and cultural objects, including Indigenous and ...

Using 3D imaging technology, Flinders University and partners have launched the ‘Ozboneviz’ virtual database, which goes ‘inside’ the anatomy of dozens of Australia’s most famous animals ...

But why do so many Australian animals wield this bioweapon? Many of these beasties predate Australia as a continent. But it's another story with venomous snakes, which arrived after the continent ...

Fossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields in northern New South Wales, ... to the Australian Museum, where they sat forgotten in a drawer until about two years ago.

A sauropod dinosaur fossil has been found with preserved stomach contents for the first time, providing insights into what they ate and how ...

A new species of deep-sea shark with bright white eyes has finally been identified, decades after a dead pregnant female of the species was first collected off the coast of Western Australia.