Millions of years ago, widespread volcano eruptions in eastern Australia buried entire forests. Today, these time capsules reveal stunningly fossilised plants.

While some species of plants have colonized hundreds of Australian islands, most inhabit just a few isles. These plant communities are the backbone of island ecosystems and provide havens for many ...

Botany of Cook's First Voyage. Illustrations of Australian Plants. By Sir Joseph Banks Dr. D. Solander Part iii. Pp. iv + 25; with 75 plates. (Trustees of the British Museum, 1905.) ...

Ancient rock art under threat as Australia gives ‘proposed ... from the industrial plants on Murujuga were mixing with ... from the Karratha plant are damaging the rock art, ...

A large collection of rock art engravings — depicting animals, plants and human figures — in Western Australia has been designated a World Heritage site.

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off the western Australian coast is actually one individual plant, making it the largest ever and the size of the entire city of Cincinnati ...

Without insects to feed on them the plants spread, uncontrolled, to cover more than 60 million acres of eastern Australia by the 1920s. Poison, crushing and fire failed to stop the cactus.