Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Lecturer and Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez is employed by Western Sydney University and received funding from the Which ...

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Government of Victoria and the Australian Government. David Lindenmayer acknowledges the major contributions to this work ...

You're probably familiar with the sight of a lillipilly bush. This hardy Australian staple—a glossy evergreen bearing powder-puff flowers and clusters of bright berries—features in many a garden hedge ...

A new study carried out in Australia finds that the bark of common tree species holds diverse microbial communities, with trillions of microbes living on every tree. The research determined that many ...

, March 14 -- Scientists have warned that a newly identified tree species in Australia, nicknamed the "zombie tree," could disappear within a generation if urgent action is not taken.