Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural ...

Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...

Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are pale blue and transparent in color and get ...

Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons are ... It is not known if they are preyed upon by other animals. They are, however, frequently taken by divers seeking ...