Meet the Burdekin duck (Radjah radjah), otherwise known as the radjah shelduck, a species found in the coastal tropics of northern Australia, as well as in New Guinea and the Maluku Islands of eastern ...

Ms Snowball and her colleagues calculated the duck-billed buck ... of wild platypus — a species listed as near threatened nationally but endangered in South Australia and vulnerable in Victoria.

In Australia, unique species abound – from koalas and kangaroos to wombats and emus. Now, the western laughing frog and a spider named for Tom Hardy are among the 750 new species recognized on ...