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

These moisture-loving snakes can exist in some of the wettest and coldest parts of the country and although venomous, they are shy and rarely bite without being continuously provoked. The three ...

Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA’s regionally extinct species was its own distinctive ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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