Along with an interdisciplinary team of scientists, the South African native leads harrowing research expeditions across the vast wetland wilderness as part of the National Geographic–funded ...
When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta.
Researchers said they named the third new species Pristurus feulneri, or Feulner’s semaphore gecko, after Gary Feulner, an ...
Archeologists’ dreams of thrilling desert expeditions in search of ancient monuments conjure images of Indiana Jones spending months on end in his hat and khaki outfits in the cruel desert heat ...
This has created an exciting new age of tourism – but also an increasing disconnect between the commercial opportunity for ...
A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood ...
"The desert’s vast, inhospitable terrain means ... "Professor Karl Vernes from the University of New England has mounted several expeditions in recent years, with the aim of discovering evidence ...