Wildlife
Searching for the infamous western desert taipan
An encounter with one of the world’s most venomous snakes in an Australian desert: what more could a reptile enthusiast want?
Tag: desert wildlife
Wildlife
Meet Australia’s desert-dwelling frogs
Burrowing frogs spend most of their lives underground, which impacts their shape, eating and breeding habits.
Wildlife
Photographing Australia’s desert reptiles
In the upcoming issue of Australian Geographic photographers Ross McGibbon and Tim Squires search for one of the world’s most dangerous snakes: the western desert taipan. But they managed to photographic some of our favourite desert reptiles along the way.
Wildlife
Stick-nest rats are masters of construction
Our desert-dwelling rodents are truly remarkable, but the enormous nests of our native stick-nest rats are something else entirely.
Wildlife
Why we need a better appreciation of our native rodents
Australia’s native rats and mice are as worthy of love and attention as the continent’s better-known marsupials.
Wildlife
8 adorable Aussie desert-dwellers
These arid-zone mammals are tougher than they look, surviving in some of Australia’s harshest conditions.
Adventure
Surviving in the desert
Aboriginal people across Australia have employed a number of common strategies to help them survive in some of the planet’s most arid environments.
Dr Karl: Need to Know
The thorny devil lizard’s drinking habits
How the thorny devil takes “flat out like a lizard drinking” to the extreme.