Manuel Quiroga Papua New Guinea’s rainforest covers 73 million hectares and includes various ecosystems such as tropical ...

With its tropical climate, using insect repellent is a must to keep those pesky mosquito-borne diseases at bay.

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

The cassowary looks like a relic from another geologic era – it’s as tall as a person, has glossy black feathers and piercing ...

Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby.

Every seven seconds we hear it — the long, drawn out “hooooooo” of one of the world’s rarest birds. The Grenada Dove may be shy, elusive and critically endangered, but it’s cooing its heart out on ...

Australia and Papua New Guinea will on Thursday announce they are beginning negotiations on a defence treaty, in a move that could have major implications for national security and the Pacific's ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

Aussies are known as fearless and hardy people who live in a country with all kinds of poisonous snakes and spiders known to ...