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 ...

The engravings, between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict desert kites, vast structures used to trap animals. The oldest known architectural plans have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan ...

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 ...

Desert kites consist of stone walls up to five kilometers long that narrow into large enclosures surrounded by pits where hunters trapped animals, such as gazelles and deer (SN: 4/18/11).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She lives in the Strzelecki Desert with her family and wakes before dawn to check on the animals. (Supplied: UNSW/Richard Freeman) 7.30 was given rare access to join the team that has been working ...