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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 ...

How Scientists Rediscovered This Rare And Elusive Bird That We Thought Was Extinct For 100 Years

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. Here's how ...
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 ...
New Scientist

Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

PINK-BREASTED galahs take off from a lone tree in Australia’s Strzelecki desert in this dazzling spectacle captured by artist and photographer Christian Spencer. The image, which bears a striking ...