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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of feral camels roam Australia's outback. There are 700,000 at the latest count, doubling every 10 years. They are shiftless descendants of the hard-working dromedaries brought ...

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The Australian Feral Camel Management Project says the camels are spread across about 3.3 million square kilometres of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland.

You might think evolution is glacially slow. At a species level, that's true. But evolution happens every time organisms produce offspring. The everyday mixing of genes—combined with mutations—throws ...

Around 6,000 camels are reportedly rampaging through a remote Australian town. The Northern Territory government has organised a mass cull of the creatures after claiming that the Docker River ...

There are many exotic species native to Australia: The kangaroo, the koala, the kookaburra. But the camel is not among them. Australia is now home to more wild camels than any other country on earth.

CANBERRA, Australia — Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been ...

Shooters will take to the skies in helicopters this week to hunt down and kill thousands of feral camels tormenting remote communities. And it won’t take them long to meet that seemingly large target.

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Wild herds in search of water are overrunning Outback town that’s enduring long drought.

French actress Brigitte Bardot has condemned an Australian plan to cull two million feral cats to stop them harming native animals, a proposal animal rights groups said Wednesday was unlikely to be ...

Camels were first introduced to Australia in the 1840s to aid in the exploration of the continent's vast interior. [AFP] Snipers took to helicopters in Australia on Wednesday to begin a mass cull of ...