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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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 ...

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.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Authorities in Australia's Outback said Tuesday that they plan to shoot wild camels from helicopters because the rapidly expanding population is encroaching on ranch land — an idea ...

(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 ...

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia — Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences ...

Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a five-day cull of feral herds that were threatening indigenous communities in drought-stricken areas of southern Australia, officials said ...

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 ...

Forget about Australia’s Got Talent or The X Factor, because the search is now on the country’s best dromedary.