For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre ...

Making a home in the dry heat of the Australian desert requires some pretty nifty adaptations, and this guy is no exception. In 2016, scientists figured out the clever way this lizard can soak up ...

Deserts are full of oddball animals. Here are 15 of the strangest. Skip to main content. ... (Lophochroa leadbeateri), which ekes out an existence in the semi-arid and arid Australian Outback.

In the Australian Outback, pooled water can be extremely hard to come by. To deal with this issue, ... Camels Aren’t the Only Animals That Store Fat for Desert Survival.

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...

Trending / Plants & Animals / Desert Lizards Face 'Cost-of-Living' Squeeze Due to Rising ... models that were confirmed with 2,685 field observations for 10 different desert lizard species throughout ...

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 ...

So perfectly intact is this animal that a team of paleontologists led by Matthew McCurry of the Aus. ... Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert. Story by Michelle Starr ...

Also using the strategy: the fat-tailed dunnart, a tiny marsupial found in Australian deserts. They’re one of few mammals known to bathe in the sun’s warm glow when arousing from torpor, a ...

A picture shows the new species, named the desert whip snake. Mark Hutchinson. Wildlife photographer Ross McGibbon posted about the new find on Facebook. "I targeted this species in 2017 during ...

For example, Australian frogs cocoon themselves in mucus for months at a time. From the freezing ocean floor to the scorching desert, animals live in some the planet's harshest climates.