But some animals do call this arid world home ... Making a home in the dry heat of the Australian desert requires some pretty nifty adaptations, and this guy is no exception.

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 ...

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, dating back more than 500 million years. The numerous fossils of the ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

In the Australian Outback ... Camels Aren’t the Only Animals That Store Fat for Desert Survival. The Gila Monster—one of only two venomous lizards in the world—spends most of its life ...

Much like the American West, the Australian outback looms large ... marked with runic inscriptions from the animals that call the desert home. I came upon a blue-tongued skink sunning itself ...