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 ...

Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water. Camels "mad with thirst" recently ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with ...

There are an estimated 1.2 million wild camels in Australia and each one produces about 100 pounds of methane a year. A government report suggests... As scientists and environmentalists in Australia ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) -- About 10,000 camels are at risk of being shot and killed in a drought-ravaged region of Australia, after complaints that the thirsty animals are endangering locals as they desperately search ...