Ken Gelder receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Rachael Weaver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Since the beginnings of settler occupation in Australia, the ...

Sitting on a roadside boulder in the Australian Outback, I scraped the last beans from the bottom of a can. Then it was back to work. With the aid of a fading headlamp, I continued fleshing a massive ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A spokesperson for the Australian Society for Kangaroos estimates that ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4, 2014 – Australia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards, as they have for at least 2,000 years. A University of Utah researcher ...

Women of the Martu aboriginal tribe in Western Australia hunt lizards by setting fire to patches of brush to expose the burrows of their prey. And rather than diminishing the number of lizards, this ...

Australia’s Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small fires to catch lizards, as they have for at least 2,000 years. A researcher found such human-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations – showing ...