Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

To the scientists and ecologists working to save them, Australia's Euastacus crayfish species are fascinating, living relics ...

Harrowing photos highlight the wretched state of Australian rivers, where at least 36 species of spiny crayfish (Euastacus) ...

The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 (Image: James D. Morgan) A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia after being bred for survival. The eastern barred ...

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.

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 ...

Australia’s biobanks store everything from seeds of native plants to the cells and tissue of threatened animal species ...