Dietitians in WA's Kimberley are hoping the leaves of the boab tree will become a staple part of the Australian diet. Although the boab tree has been a Kimberley icon for years, scientists only ...

We investigate the origins of Western Australia’s iconic boab tree, whose only living relatives survive far away in Africa. Australia isn’t known for its deciduous trees. Across vast swathes of forest ...

Let’s begin with a small attempt to understand one of Nature’s marvels. Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as bottle tree or upside-down tree due to its freaky swollen trunk, is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sue O'Connor, Author provided Australia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth. It’s a hard place to ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The "enormously significant" cultural artefacts were living sites and also document the songlines of the region. But they are destined to disappear. The carvings have been compared to the more famous ...

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This article originally appeared on The Conversation. In a study published recently in PLOS ONE, we solve one part of this mystery by showing that ancient Aboriginal peoples were responsible for ...

For all this, the dominant character here is the Kimberley itself. This old country that drifted in and welded on to the continent. And if we look to see that in just one face, surely it is in that of ...

Carvings in boab trees are as significant as rock art for Indigenous Australians. Now, there is a race against time to document the ancient art in the bark of boabs before the remarkable heritage ...