Australia

The Tasmanian tiger may be gone, but it’s not forgotten. New footage of the extinct marsupial has emerged from the vault of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), showing the last known member of the species in a dingy cage.

Paleontologists in Australia have uncovered a strange new species of dinosaur. It's an elaphrosaur, placing it in the theropod family along with the Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor – but this one had a long neck, no teeth and an unusual diet.

New research is shedding some light on the longstanding mystery of koala hydration. The study presents the first description of a previously unknown drinking behavior, showing the unique marsupials drinking by licking tree trunks during rain storms.

With its impressive height and ambitious twisting, greenery-covered design, you could be forgiven for assuming Southbank by Beulah would stay on the drawing board. It has now received planning permission though and will begin construction next year.

Austin Maynard Architects has performed "architectural keyhole surgery" to turn the cramped and dark center of a terraced house into the light-filled heart of the home. Home efficiency was also improved with additions that include a Tesla Powerwall.

Forget space – the oceans are Earth’s final frontier. The latest case in point is a diving expedition off the coast of Western Australia, which has discovered up to 30 new species plus what may be the longest animal ever recorded.

K20 Architecture was commissioned to design a new community center in Bayswater, a suburb of Melbourne. In response, it delivered a building that makes use of local and recycled materials and features solar power and rainwater collection systems.

The winners of this year's Nikon Surf Photo and Video Awards highlight an incredible array of images spanning the entire world. The top prize went to a spectacular shot taken at iconic Western Australian surf spot, The Right.

The fossilized remains of the oldest known ancestor of almost every animal have been discovered. The creature, named Ikaria wariootia, is a wormlike animal about the size of a grain of rice, and it's the earliest example of the bilaterian body shape.

The radio antenna that acts as Earth’s sole transmitter to Voyager 2 will soon undergo important upgrades, so for the next 11 months we won’t be able to send commands to The Little Spacecraft That Could.

A team of researchers looking at the effects of climate change on Australia's seasons have crunched the numbers on the nation's summer start and end points, finding that it now runs for one month longer than the mid-20th century benchmark.

Australia is currently in one of the worst bushfires on record, and it’s not hard to see why. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has released a climate statement for 2019, and found that last year was the hottest and driest on record for the continent.