Authorities have been accused of 'failing' in their response to the escalating situation. Find out what happened.

Doug Gimesy’s extreme close-ups of ‘sky puppies’ are designed to trigger an emotional response that endears people to the ‘wrongly vilified’ mammals ...

Screeching all day and night and piles of excrement are just two of the anti-social side effects of having a huge colony of ...

A platypus playing in the river, tree kangaroos hiding above and bats screeching overhead… this isn’t the Duke gardens! 10,185 miles away, three Duke students find themselves in Yungaburra, Australia.

Humane World for Animals Australia (formerly called Humane Society International) has criticised the Crisafulli Government's ...

In Far North Queensland, one special winged mammal helps keep rainforests alive. The spectacled flying fox travels vast distances each night, pollinating flowers and spreading seeds far and wide.

A health warning has been issued for parts of north Queensland after dozens of people have been bitten or scratched by flying foxes. Authorities say encounters with the bats are on the increase and ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Thousands of baby grey-headed flying foxes have been abandoned by their mothers in the latest example of wildlife devastation caused by Australia's severe drought and bushfires, ...

Hendra virus (HeV) continues to cause fatal infection in horses and threaten infection in close-contact humans in eastern Australia. Species of Pteropus bats (flying-foxes) are the natural reservoir ...