Tasmania

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.

The White House is planning a legally dodgy takeover of the Postal Service. Good ol' Ben Franklin must be rolling over in his grave.

More than 150 false killer whales have washed up on the coast of the Australian island state of Tasmania, with none of them expected to survive, officials said.

More than 150 endangered false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania. After unsuccessful attempts to refloat some of the surviving whales, authorities said all remaining whales will be euthanized.

Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed.A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was found stranded Tuesday evening on an isolated ...

"Aflame," by Pico Iyer; "Only in America," by Richard Bernstein; "Taiwan Travelogue," by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ; and "Tasmania," by Paolo Giordano.

Impress your friends and party guests with these expert-approved bottles of Champagne and sparkling wine that punch way above their price.

Officials said the man, a tourist in his 60s, was kayaking with friends in the Franklin River when he slipped and became trapped.

This study contains information on the occurrence of agenesis of one to four third molars among the population and ethnic groups of Europe, North America, Africa and Asia (Japan), based on the results of investigations carried out by dozens of authors. Recent discoveries have been supplemented with …

Colossal Biosciences says it's made a breakthrough toward the de-extinction of the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

A photograph shared to Reddit in September 2024 genuinely showed a fluorescing marsupial.

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

Thousands of sleepy sharks were spotted in Australia's Beagle Marine Park.

Imagine you're a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It's been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighborhood cats and the council's insect control tactics mean it's time to look for somewhere safer to live.

Nostalgic for a time before ubiquitous connectivity, a writer ditched his phone and relied instead on serendipity — and maps made by people he met along the way.

An archive of more than 300,000 historical images contains an invaluable record of this area from 1968.

An Australian art museum curator has divulged that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case when she only permitted female gallery patrons to view them

The sole physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan's unreleased ''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" is headed to Australia's Museum of Old and New Art.

Israeli troops are engaged in fierce fighting with armed Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Sunday. The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas cited heavy clashes between its fighters and Israeli forces in the area of Jabalia, some 4 kilomete...