Mysterious desert lines were animal traps. Mysterious lines on the deserts of the Near East are massive ancient hunting tools, made up of low stone walls. A desert kite, as seen in southeast Sinai.

The traps are a series of walls and stones that are placed measuring from hundreds of feet to 3 miles. The megastructures converge inward to pits about 13 feet deep where animals could be trapped.

A Riverside County Department of Animal Services officer went to the Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert at about 6:30 a.m. in response to a call about a coyote stuck in a "bear-trap type" device.

One of the traps turned out to be 5,000 years old, the other 1,600 years old. “They look like a pile of stones, like a cairn, and you need a good eye and also some digging around to realize what ...

Her roommate used wire cutters to remove the trap from a fence post. They rushed Teddy to the VCA Valley Animal Medical Center & Emergency Hospital, a 24-hour facility in Indio.

The animal would then be stuck inside, ... Archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old leopard trap in Israel desert, rewriting history of human farming in the region. e-mail; ...

Recent studies have built a consensus that the so-called desert kites were used to trap and kill wild animal herds. But how ancient hunters conceived — and perceived — these grandiose ...

The desert in the area can reach 122 degrees Fahrenheit. A cat recovers after being left in the desert in Abu Dhabi. Handout/CBS News Chiku Shergill, a British management executive and an animal ...

Natural selection couldn’t foresee all these deadly new surprises, known as “evolutionary traps,” and thus, animals lack the behavioral tools to handle them. Nature is, of course, always weeding out ...