We're on the water in Queensland's Daintree, the world's oldest living rainforest, twice as old as the Amazon and dating back 130million years.

Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host of unexpected discoveries.

Witnessing an apex predator is often enough for most people. But what happens when two of the most powerful shallow-water hunters cross paths? In most instances, not much. However, there are rare ...

Dive into the thrilling world of the biggest and most dangerous crocodile in the world. This video explores these ancient ...

When it comes to owning coastal ecosystems, the saltwater crocodile and bull shark sit at the top of the food chain. Both predators have unique characteristics, allowing them to adapt and thrive ...

There have been surprising revelations in the crocodile world as of late: DNA analysis has revealed that two reptiles once ...

interactions with humans and feral predators, and climate change. This is especially true for platypuses. To ensure the survival of this ancient lineage, we need to better understand how their ...

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch.

They’ve long thought that monotremes — egg-laying mammals that include the platypus and hedgehog-like creatures known as echidnas — originated on land. The platypus took the occasional aquatic foray, ...

Giant crocodile ancestors "built like a greyhound" were the top predators in the Caribbean 20 million years ago, reveals new research. The massive carnivores, called sebecids, stood tall - with ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene.