Despite being considered an iconic Australian animal, the dingo arrived on the continent only around 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, brought by…

When John Batman arrived at Port Phillip Bay in 1835 and signed a dubious land deal with local Aboriginal people, the fledgling settlement…

Coober Pedy in South Australia is the opal mining capital of the world, and the majority of its residents live in homes carved into the…

The Australian Outback is home to approximately 300,000 feral dromedary camels, the largest population of wild one-humped camels in the…

In 1935, 102 cane toads were deliberately released in Queensland to control the cane beetle devastating sugar crops. The toads ignored the…

For several centuries, Spain maintained a royal monopoly on Merino sheep, the breed that would go on to underpin Australia wool industry.…

Eucalyptus trees are packed with highly flammable volatile oils that evaporate in hot weather, forming a blue haze around the treetops and…

Wombats are the only animals in the world known to produce cube-shaped droppings. Scientists discovered that this unusual shape comes from…

Australia stretches roughly 2,500 miles from its east coast to its west coast — wider than the Moon's diameter of about 2,160 miles. The…