As climate change bears down on Antarctica, understanding why some penguins end up meandering so far from their natural ...

Three-quarters of Australia's freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians ...

The Auckland Folk Festival 2025 is proud to announce more exciting additions to its lineup, with acclaimed Australian ...

A new species of rock skink has been discovered in central Australia by Monash University researchers. Characterized by its ...

The descriptor “finch” is used by birders to describe a family of birds with similar characteristics. In North America, we ...

New research on zebra finches reveals that stress spreads within social groups, even affecting individuals not directly ...

Animal habitats are currently changing extremely rapidly and extensively due to urbanization and climate change. As a result, ...

A lone and malnourished emperor penguin, thousands of miles from its Antarctic home, was spotted waddling ashore earlier this ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Former Australian cricketers Brad Haddin and Aaron Finch believe that the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and ...

What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of birds? Experiments conducted by the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...

Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...