Emus of different sizes once abounded in Australia, Tasmania, and the surrounding islands. When Europeans encountered them, ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species — Menura tyawanoides — is an ancient ancestor of ...

A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia following a breeding programme designed to ensure its survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...