Red sand blasted my neck and face as winds relentlessly swirled across Australia’s Outback. Sitting atop a small, rocky outcropping, I pressed the binocular into my eye sockets to block the stinging ...

Editor’s Note: Cornett is currently in the Great Australian Desert. He shares his Australian desert experiences in this, his last, of a four-part series. For a moment, I thought I was in the Sahara or ...

Feral camels have never gotten much love in the Australian bush. Considered to be an invasive species, they graze native plants to the point of local extinction. They walk across roads in the middle ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Some 100,000 feral camels have been culled from the Australian outback, a key step towards controlling the troublesome animals that have destroyed infrastructure, contaminated water ...

The Bactrian camel is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of eastern Asia. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the Dromedary which has one. Nearly all of the ...

Protection status: Endangered Surviving harsh conditions: Bactrian camels have several ways to survive extreme weather conditions. They have two humps that store fat, which can be converted to water ...