A comprehensive list of Australia’s critically endangered animals. According to the IUCN Red List of endangered species, Australia has 86 animal species that are considered Critically Endangered. A ...

A pod of roughly 60 killer whales attacked and fed on an endangered blue whale off the coast of southwestern Australia, ...

Numbats, Western Australia's animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population ...

The species, also known as the sihek, was wiped out from its native Guam and kept alive in captivity. Conservationists ...

University of Queensland researchers are calling for reforms to Australia's environmental laws, as threatened fish species continue to be legally exported. Their work has identified four species that ...

Two endangered Maugean skates have been returned to Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour after more than two years in captivity. But the harbour they call home remains dangerously degraded.

Koalas were officially declared endangered Friday in eastern Australia. This comes as the marsupials continue to fall prey to chlamydia and lose their habitats to land clearing and climate change.

In the vast, arid landscapes of South Australia's northeast, on the lands of the Adnyamathanha and Wilyakali, a surprising discovery is changing our understanding of one of Australia's most endangered ...

A new Australian study has found alarming pesticide levels in food eaten by endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos, raising concerns about links to a mysterious paralysis syndrome.

More and more Australian species are being listed as critically endangered – the final stage before extinction in the wild. Hundreds of species of plants and animals are now at this point. For a ...