At 750 years old one could be forgiven for having a few ailments but a recent health check of King's Park's mighty boab tree Gija Jumulu has revealed the popular tourist attraction is in perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia's boab trees.

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 ...

Carvings on boab trees in northern Australia's Tanami Desert support stories told by elders about how their land came to be, according to a team of Indigenous people and archaeologists. The carvings ...

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 ...

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 ...