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 26-year study at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic ...

To find the shrew, the team set out pitfall traps — the only way to research small, burrowing mammals, according to Subramanyan.

Editor's note: This report includes images of dead animals that may cause some readers distress. Dozens of cats were left to die in the unforgiving heat of the Abu Dhabi desert, animal rights ...

The mammals tend to gobble up insects and live underground (Picture: Vishal Subramanyan) Researchers slept in two-hour shifts to ensure they didn’t miss the shrew falling into the traps (Picture ...

How Evolutionary Traps Plague the Animal Kingdom For many creatures, the modern landscape is a minefield rife with hazards that natural selection never saw coming.

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 owners of a Desert Hot Springs home are asking the community for help in finding homes for dozens of pets abandoned in ...

Massive ancient hunting traps called desert kites (one in Jordan shown from above) include long walls that converge on enclosed spaces where animals were driven into pits. O. Barge, Globalkites ...

A group of United Arab Emirates residents has found more than 140 cats dumped in a desert lot in the capital Abu Dhabi, in a phenomenon that has drawn criticism from international animal rights ...

A number of native animals, extinct in New South Wales for more than 100 years, are reclaiming the desert in Sturt National Park and scientists are trying to teach them how to survive predators ...