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Australia's Desert Area Is A Stunning Spot Home To A Rare, Beautiful Bird Making An Extraordinary Comeback

Within Australia's seemingly unforgiving but awe-inspiring desert landscape, there have been sightings of a rare, gorgeous ...
AZ Animals

This Rare Bird Isn’t Extinct After All

The elusive night parrot, once thought extinct, is still found in pockets of Australia. A new study discovers what they need ...
Yahoo

Louis Loncke Returns to the Simpson Desert

Belgian adventurer Louis-Philippe Loncke, who styles himself the Mad Belgian, is set to return to the Simpson Desert in Australia for a third time. Loncke aims to make a double crossing of the desert, ...
The New York Times

Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...
Sacramento Bee

‘Robust’ desert creature with porthole-like blotches discovered as new species

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 Oliver ...
Miami Herald

Desert creature with ‘ambush’ hunting style found in Australia. It’s a new species

Scientists found a “robust” creature with an “ambush predation” style in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and ...
Max & Occy on MSN

Leaving the Desert Behind – Van Life Reset in Australia

Join us as we trade the desert for the tropical north in our van adventure through Central Australia. Occy and I are ...