Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...

Scientists found a “robust” creature with porthole-like spots in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and Oliver ...

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There's something that sets The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, a local association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), apart from other institutions. It's that the zoo represents the desert environments of ...

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Under the cover of night, a “robust” creature with a distinctive hunting style took up its rocky perch in a desert of Australia. Its “large” eyes scanned the surrounding landscape — but it wasn’t the ...

But ask the people who lived in this desert for 48,000 years what happened and many will tell you: They left. “A lot of Martu people say that if there’s no people out in the country, then all the ...

It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, ...

Scientists found a “robust” creature with an “ambush predation” style in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and ...