Team Kowari, a not-for-profit collaboration between researchers at the University of Sydney, Arid Recovery and the South Australian Government ... and hoping to get people more familiar with the ...

We humans cannot do without water in a day. Our body loses water through breathing, sweating and excretion. Well, there are ...

A double-door entrance prevents the animals from escaping as guests ... that tell of the similarities between Australian and Southern California deserts and species living within them as well ...

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 ...

In our series "Sounds Wild", NPR is collecting the voices of animals. Today we've got a mob of frogs recorded in the Australian desert after a sudden rain shower. David Stewart made the recording.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...