The top 5 largest deserts in the world aren't just hot and humid; rather, two out of the five have extreme cold situations ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

One such submission is that the boy be hung by the ankles from a tree out in the desert, where the animal kingdom can take ...

The Pilbara is one of the few regions in the country where bilbies are still found. This pastoralist has been working to ...

limiting the dispersal of early humans and animals between Africa and Eurasia. Recent research suggested the desert had been in place since at least 11 million years ago. But Professor Michael ...

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

Speaking from Sydney to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, McCurry explains his new find which shows climate — and change: Can you describe your work? I am a palaeontologist — we study ancient animals ...

A new study finds that Arabia was once a green corridor of rivers and lakes, enabling animal and human migration between Africa and Eurasia over the past 8 million years. A new study published in ...

The native animal ... according to the Australian Conservation Foundation. As well as the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of WA, they live in the Gibson, Little and Great Sandy Deserts, the Tanami ...

One of the planet's largest, driest biogeographic barriers was once lush with rivers and lakes for 8 million years, which encouraged the movements of water-dependent animals and indicates the ...