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

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

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.

A security camera outside a home in Australia captured a family’s “close encounter” with the “world’s most dangerous bird.” ...

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 ...

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

“We are all fascinated by bones and this new database is a way to go behind the glass cases at the museum, see specimens up close and understand their special features,” says Associate ...

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.

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

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.

ABOLISHING the museum’s molecular biology unit and making its staff redundant, threatening the future of the world-class frozen Australian Biological Tissue Collection, with more than 200,000 ...