While deserts are often seen as lifeless wastelands, many harbor extraordinary and dangerous wildlife. From venomous sna ...

They spend their days in tunnels that they dig out of the dry Australian soil, and they spend their nights foraging for food such as termites, tubers and grubs. Like many desert animals ...

Passing scientists noticed the pale animal — and discovered a new species. Researchers ventured into several remote desert areas of central Australia to search for lizards, according to a study ...

Scientists found a “robust” creature with an “ambush predation” style in a desert of Australia and discovered ... Visiting scientists found the spotted animal. It turned out to be a ...

Known to the First Nations peoples in the Western Desert of Australia as the kakarratul, it is eyeless and has shaggy golden fur. Just four inches from nose to tail, the animal would fit in the ...

Australia is now home to the world’s largest ... After all, it’s painstaking and expensive to cull the animals in the desert and transport them for processing. “It’s just horrendously ...

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and ...