The Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago) was a time of ecological upheaval in Australia. The climate fluctuated between warmer/colder and wetter/dryer periods, humans made ...

The Pacific's last megapode - a bird with large feet that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs - has been rescued from the brink of extinction, researchers said. Dr Dick Watling, an independent ...

A young person interested in ecology should be pleased to see a recent announcement in Species, the newsletter of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN, the World Conservation Union. The Megapode ...

Australia is renowned for once being home to a group of gigantic birds known as the mihirungs. These birds are distantly related to waterfowl and included the impressive Dromornis stirtoni, the ...

Imagine walking around Australia on a vacation only to be met by a flying turkey the size of a kangaroo. According to research by paleontologists at Flinders University in Adelaide, a huge flying ...