Peter de Kruijff

Did you ever hear the animal "fact" that a wombat could beat the world's fastest human, Usain Bolt, in a footrace?

Under Australia's federal environment laws there's not much you can't get approval for when it comes to clearing land for development.

Are major renewable energy projects being unfairly targeted by federal environment laws as some groups claim? We take a look at the numbers.

All manner of anti-shark devices claim to keep the apex predator away from humans, yet several marine ecologists say some hammerheads need protection from us

Few creatures are as puzzling as the platypus. Multiple ancient and enduring First Nations stories touch on its appearance as an amalgam of creatures like a duck and a rakali.

An ancient monotreme dubbed the "echidnapus", which shares platypus- and echidna-like characteristics, is one of three extinct species of egg-laying mammal unveiled by palaeontologists today.

Freshly discovered skulls of a giant prehistoric bird that lived in Australia until about 45,000 years ago reveal it had a "goose-like beak" and other aquatic adaptations.

Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) by humans has increased 40 per cent in the past 40 years, according to a new report.

The world's climate change authority has underestimated the extent and intensity of future Australian bushfires, according to a new study.

The dusky sea snake is an enigma, dwelling in some of the most remote reaches of the Timor Sea.