The Australian government plans to kill wild horses by shooting them from the air. "There are simply too many wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park," an environment official said. About 19,000 wild ...

PERTH, Australia — 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 ...

Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the beloved marsupials against a ...

Months after catastrophic bushfires burned large parts of Australia, there's a glimmer of good news in the midst of the globe's other current emergency. Koalas are slowly being released back into the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Wild weather has ...

Australia is experiencing a very unique baby boom. Tasmanian devils have just been born in the wild on the continent's mainland for the first time since they disappeared there about 3,000 years ago.

Did you know Australia has a rabbit problem? It’s estimated somewhere around 200 million wild rabbits are hopping around Australia, and they’re causing a lot of damage. Their huge numbers and large ...

Martin Jucker receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the NSW Government. What’s going on? As ever, it’s hard to pinpoint a single cause for weather events. But a key player is ...

It might be one of the most famous continents on the planet, but the story of Australia hasn't been told quite like this before. In a four-part world premiere blue-chip wildlife series, come ...

The Food Safety Information Council has warned people in Australia not to pick or eat wild mushrooms following a number of poisoning cases. Eight people were recently hospitalized in New South Wales ...