New evidence shows that people have lived inland in Western Australia for more than 50,000 years. That's 10,000 years earlier than previously known for Australian deserts. The finding comes from ...

The dramatic scenery of Glen Helen Gorge, in the heart of Australia, draws painters such as Australia's Albert Namatjira. Florian Sanktjohanser/dpa-tmn For hours already, the hikers have been trudging ...

Life can seem sparse in Australia's vast, arid inland plains. Smothered by rust-red desert sands, the skyline is distinguished by sporadic jutting rocks cutting into the enormous open skies. However, ...

Traveling in the Australian outback comes with plenty of risks. Help is often far away, and there are many hazards to trip up even the well-prepared adventurer. One Australian family has found ...

In an exciting turn of events, scientists have pointed to new research which shows that Aboriginal people have been dwelling in the desert interior of Western Australia for 50,000 years, showing that ...

July 16 (UPI) --For 22 years, scientists studied ant populations in the Simpson Desert in northern Australia. Their findings suggest the ant species in the region are surprisingly resilient, capable ...

You might think of Australia’s arid centre as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it’s actually dotted with ...

"There was once a woman who lived in the desert." So begins, almost like a children's story, the extraordinary biography of Daisy Bates, a woman of Irish birth who, in 1913 at the age of 54, wandered ...

News Channel 3's Caitlin Thropay has been following the making of "Australian Adventures" since the beginning. Shelly is a five-year-old tawny frogmouth. She's named after Shelly Beach in Australia.

The Simpson Desert stretches 68,000 miles across central Australia, but it looks as surreal as anything on Mars. There are more than 1,100 parallel sand dunes, each a wind-sculpted ridge of quartz ...

News Channel 3's Caitlin Thropay has been exclusively following the progress of the new "Australian Adventures" exhibit at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert. We spoke with the zoo's ...

Stretching across some of the most remote, arid places on Earth is one of humanity’s largest built objects: the “dog fence,” a nearly 3,500-mile-long barrier erected to keep wild dingoes away from the ...