Scientists found a “robust” creature with porthole-like spots in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and ...

Australia, the driest inhabited continent on Earth, is home to the Great Australian Desert, the fourth largest desert in the world. Despite its vast size, Australia’s low population density has ...

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The fossils paint a picture of life in Australia's prehistoric rainforests, 15 million years ago. They also reveal major climate changes as Australia's rainforests turned into desert.

The desert rat-kangaroo, an extinct marsupial species, could actually be alive and ‘evading detection’ in Australia desert, new study says.

Notoryctes caurinus, or the northern marsupial mole, is found in the deserts of northwestern Australia. It is also called kakarratul by the local Indigenous Martu people.

Scientists found a “robust” creature with porthole-like spots in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said.