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The nocturnal species can be found burrowed inside trapdoors about the diameter of a 50-cent piece in the black soil west of Bundaberg.

Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.

Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on biodiversity but our activities are driving an increase in extinctions. Yet some extinct species continue to hold our fascination. New methods in genetics and reproductive biology hold the promise that de-extinction – resurrecting extinct species – could soon be possible.

Historian Dan Snow pleads for person to come forward who removed head from animal washed up on Lepe beach

A critically endangered stonefly could be the first to be protected under untested Victorian environmental laws passed in 2020.

Auckland Council has consented yet another helipad on Waiheke Island. That’s more than 60 on an island less than 20km long. Kim Whitaker of Quiet Sky Waiheke asks how has council got it so wrong?

Trophy hunters removed the head, tail and fin from the shark before scientists could study it

A hairdresser has spoken of how she tried to save a stranded rare shark which washed up on a UK beach before it was found dead the next day

A small insect-eating bat has been confirmed as Mozambique’s newest species of mammal after more than a decade of intensive study by scientists who used near-invisible “mist nets” to catch their first specimens.