Red desert gives up its wildlife secrets
Tuesday 3 November 2026
The annual fauna survey at Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park has uncovered a number of desert species rarely seen by visitors, including Australia’s smallest carnivorous marsupial, the ningaui (which looks like a mouse), spinifex hopping mice, lesser hairy footed dunnarts (similar to tiny possums with pointy noses and mouse-like tails), northern spiny tailed geckos – and even a potentially new species of scorpion.
