An emperor penguin is in recovery after swimming from Antarctica to Australia — a journey of over 2,000 miles. The bird was ...

"There was this big bird in the water, and we thought it was another sea bird, but then it kept coming closer to the ...

It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...

about 250 miles south of Perth in Western Australia. Surfer Aaron Fowler was among the first to spot Gus emerging from the ...

From a big bird. I stand up and look around. I’m in the Daintree Rainforest, two hours’ drive up the coast from the seaside city of Cairns, in the far north of Australia. Here and there ...

because they've got big eyes, and they look straight at you and they do look a bit fierce," said Rowles. These flightless birds are only found in Australia, New Guinea and some Pacific islands.

I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ... [+] pressures. But they will continue to perish if we don ...

The skull of a prehistoric "giant goose" has been discovered in Australia. It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) - about five times as much as an emu.