Fresh examination of an Australian fossil -- believed to be among the earliest plants on Earth -- has revealed evidence of a new plant species that existed in Australia more than 359 Million years ago ...

For Australia’s native guava, death came in the form of a fungus. Just 10 years ago, a virulent strain of the fungus Austropuccinia psidii arrived in New South Wales. First observed in Hawaii in 2005, ...

A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely preserved" plants that lived millions of years ago. The material in which the fossils described in the study occur is called silcrete.