The beloved Australian lyrebird best known for its stunning tail and powers of mimicry may have a cunning hidden talent.

Imagine stumbling upon a creature with a leg-span so vast it could easily cloak a dinner plate. Meet the Goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi), a marvel of the arachnid world and the largest ...

A Goliath bird-eating spider. This is the largest spider according to the Guinness World Records. Sheri (Bellatrix on Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The goliath birdeater, the world’s ...

JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The plains-wanderer is an unusual little bird that lives in the grasslands of Australia. These “avian oddballs” spend most of their lives ...

An Australian zoo is urging the public to catch and donate the world’s deadliest spiders to support its lifesaving antivenom programme. The Australian Reptile Park in Sydney says this has been a “very ...

An Australian zoo is urging the public to catch and donate the world’s deadliest spiders to support its lifesaving antivenom programme. The Australian Reptile Park in Sydney says this has been a ...

There has been criticism of the way US officials have handled the outbreak as authorities around the world work to stop the spread. Australia has lost more than 10 per cent of its laying hens to ...

Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of poisonous snake and spider known to man, not to mention the ...

It's the largest type of spider ... eating birds, or by the account of a 16th-century explorer who saw the remains of chicks that had fallen into one of the spiders' burrows. In reality, the ...

Known as the "world's most dangerous bird," they live in the tropical rainforests of Australia and New Guinea. The bird is beautiful and dangerous due to its vivid blue face, helmet-like headdress ...