Australia is a hub for diverse and stunning deserts. It’s a hotspot for adventure and looks amazing. Australia’s deserts, from the Simpson Desert to the Great Victoria Desert, show off the country’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

How life manages to persist in unpredictable and extreme environments is a major question in evolution. For aquatic animals, extreme environments include those with little water such as the deserts of ...

Paleo-archaeologists are beginning to iron out the timeline of human habitation in Australia. Last year, using new techniques to date human artifacts, researchers confirmed a theory first proposed in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Certain Australian desert mice can survive and may gain weight on a diet of dry seed without drinking water. Urine concentrations for two of the three species studied are the highest recorded for ...