An implant that makes Australian animals lethally poisonous to cats that prey on them could help save species on the verge of extinction. Australian mammals are easily targeted by cats because many ...

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

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...

Australia's photographic natural database is about to get a big boost as citizen scientists are urged to join a national ...

Experts estimate cats kill more than 1.5 billion native animals every year in Australia — including mammals, birds, reptiles ...

It's an issue that has caused heated debate in jurisdictions across the country, with millions of pet owners facing tougher rules. Read the latest.

A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since ...