A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the ...

Scientists from Australia and Germany have classified a new, highly venomous species of spider – Atrax christenseni, known as Big Boy. It is very large and extremely venomous. A bite can be fatal.

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...