Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve so much and touch so many lives.

Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent ...

When conservationists began re-planting koala habitat at a site near the Moorabool River, in Victoria’s central west, it was ...

You won’t come within cooee of a honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) unless you’re in the south-west of Western Australia. It’s ...

Browse Island, a tiny bump in the sea off the coast of Western Australia, has become the focus of a world-first attempt to ...

Making compost is a cornerstone of sustainable gardening, yet few of us understand the great science behind it.

A four-day hike traces the footsteps of the convicts and visionaries who tried and failed to tame an empire at the edge of ...

For a creature with no brain or spine, there’s a lot going on inside the sea cucumber. Surviving the wilds of the open ocean requires a delicate trade-off between staying hidden and staying fed, plus ...

Throughout this 40th anniversary year of Australian Geographic we’re looking back at a selection of stories we’ve run over ...

Australian researchers have discovered mosquitoes act like tiny ‘flying wildlife surveyors’, collecting the DNA of elusive endangered animals. Making a batch of ‘mosquito soup’ is all in a day’s work ...