A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the new species under threat.

Hoskin found Scawfell Island sun skinks in rainforest areas with “granite rocks,” such as several leaf-filled “gullies.” He ...

As night fell across a remote region of northern Australia, a “velvet” creature emerged from a pile of rocks. Its hard-to-reach habitat and camouflaged coloring helped it go largely unnoticed — until ...

She said many species were appearing now on the list because of past expert workshops, like one that looked at the threat to all 1,200 Australian snakes and lizards eight years ago. And an ...

27 in the peer-reviewed Australian Journal of Taxonomy ... When he compared the lizards to examples of known species, nothing matched. Hoskin soon realized he’d discovered a new species ...