Three-quarters of Australia’s freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians of remarkable creatures such as the ornate rainbowfish, the ancient ...

So how are these national treasures faring? To find out, we undertook the first comprehensive assessment of Australia’s freshwater fish species. We examined extinction risks and drivers of ...

A pair of men in Queensland, Australia, found a baby freshwater crocodile on a road several miles from its nearest natural habitat. Photo by Engin_Akyurt/Pixabay.com ...

Ornamental fish like the guppy and sailfin molly have been popping up in the freshwater ... while the blind gudgeon is a much smaller fish that can reach 5cm in length. Australia's third cavefish ...

A whopping 35 freshwater fish are being recommended for national listings as being at risk of extinction after an Australia-wide survey. One species, the Kangaroo River perch, is also thought to ...

Stock image of a freshwater crocodile. A man in Australia has been fined after he uploaded TikToks of himself catching these crocodiles using nets and lassos in the Ross River in Queensland.

The species was found everywhere from the headwaters of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in the Australian Alps all the way down to Wellington in South Australia. For thousands of years ...

A man’s tour of a remote location in Australia ended with him fending off an attack by a vicious freshwater crocodile and barely managing to save himself with the help of “his one good hand”.