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 ...

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 ...

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.

For Brenda Garstone, boab trees have long been a significant presence. "You know, we had so many old people telling us 'You mob for the Bottle Tree Dreaming. This is Ngarrangarnie.'" A coolamon owned ...

Brenda Garstone is on the hunt for her heritage. Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where dozens of ancient boab trees are engraved ...

The boab trees of the remote Tanami desert are carved with centuries of Indigenous history – and they’re under threat. Australia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth.

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 ...

A giant boab tree from the Kimberley is expected to arrive in Perth on Saturday to be transplanted in Kings Park. The tree is believed to be 750-years-old, and is making the 3,200 kilometre journey on ...

Baobabs, the iconic bottle trees of Africa and Madagascar, have a single relative, the boab, living in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. No one knows when and how the boab came across from ...

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 ...