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 ...

Three-quarters of Australia’s freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians ...

The native southern purple-spotted gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) was declared extinct in Victoria in 1998, before two were discovered near Kerang in the state’s north in 2019. The North Central ...

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 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 ...

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.

Dead freshwater crocodiles in Australia’s Northern Territory were once a rare sight. But since 2005, locals have witnessed mass die-offs in some semi-arid regions of the territory. Researchers ...

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 ...

Australia is one of the driest and most isolated places on the planet. It comes as no surprise then that, what the country lacks in richness of freshwater mussel species, it makes up for in ...

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”.

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 ...