Echidnas are egg-laying, insect-eating mammals native to Australia, according to the Australian Museum. The country has only one species, the short-beaked echidna, which can be found throughout the ...

While most ants are harmless, the harvester ant has venom that rivals some of the deadliest snakes. Its sting is 20 times ...

A return to traditional Indigenous burning practices in the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts is helping protect the ninu, or ...

A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees that inspired an ...

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because of a sheath preserved on one ...

Heavy downpours in the Simpson Desert have left a man stranded in his vehicle while authorities make enquiries about another ...

"We've got a lot of work to do." Farmers stunned after near-extinct creature resurfaces decades after disappearing: 'We were ...

When the script calls for dunes, camels, or anything else with a whiff of spice, sand and sandals, chances are cast and crew ...

The origins of chess go back 1500 years, to Ancient India. India also gave the toffs their polo – and the masses Snakes and Ladders. More of the latter later. I wasn’t too bad at Scrabble ...

From distant jungles to endless deserts, these are places ... The toxic snake and eastern brown snake, respectively responsible for the majority of Australian fatalities resulting from snakebites ...

Kngwarray was born around 1910 at Alhalkere in the central Australian desert, some 140 miles northeast of Alice Springs. Long before turning to canvas, she expressed her cultural knowledge through ...

An Aussie man was stoked after 42 wild snakes hatched from a clutch of eggs ... All native reptiles are protected in Australia, and harming or moving them can be punished with heavy fines.