Juergen Freund / Aerial of Sturt Stoney Desert with gibber rocks. Gibber rocks are millions of years wind and water weathered chalcedonised sandstone with a hardened crust of soil cemented silica, iron and manganese,...

Konrad Wothe / Stone engravings of Giraffes in Wadi Mathendous, Wadi Barjuj, Stony Desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Arabian oryx {Oryx leucoryx} in stony desert, Oman

Alain Dragesco-Joffe / Rüppell's fox (Vulpes rueppellii) dens on a stony ground, Tenere, Sahara, Niger.

Martin Gabriel / Stony desert, Masirah Island, Sultanate of Oman, February.

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Vegetation patterns and wet ground, Sturt Stony Desert, Queensland, Australia

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Salt lakes and sand dunes in desert, Sturt Stony Desert, Queensland, Central Australia

Konrad Wothe / Camp in the Stony desert, Tassili Maridet, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stony desert, Tassili Maridet, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Face profile rock formation, Stony desert, Tassili Maridet, Libya, North Africa, December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stony desert after rain shower, Tassili Maridet, Libya, North Africa, December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stony desert, Tassili Maridet, Libya, North Africa , December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stony desert, Tassili Maridet, Libya, North Africa, December 2007

Konrad Wothe / Libyan Desert, Stony Desert, Akakus mountains, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Libyan Desert, Stony Desert, Akakus mountains, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stone engravings of a lizard in Wadi Mathendous, Wadi Barjuj, Stony Desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa , November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stone engravings of an Elephant in Wadi Mathendous, Wadi Barjuj, Stony Desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stone engravings of giraffes and elephants in Wadi Mathendous, Wadi Barjuj, Stony Desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stone engravings of an Antelope in Wadi Mathendous, Wadi Barjuj, Stony Desert, Libya, Sahara, North Africa, November 2007

Konrad Wothe / Stony Desert, Black Desert, Libya, North Africa, November 2007

Theo Allofs / Sturt Stony Desert with cumulus clouds, Queensland, Australia

Daniel Heuclin / Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) walking across stony ground. Controlled conditions. Foothills of Catalina mountains, Arizona, USA, October.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Yellow spotted agama {Trapelus flavimaculatus} on stony ground, Oman, March

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Arabian oryx {Oryx leucoryx} in stony desert, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Arabian gazelle {Gazella gazella} in stony desert, Oman

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Arabian gazelle {Gazella gazella} in stony desert, Oman

Bruno D'Amicis / Abstract landscape with sky, sand dunes and stony desert (hammada) in the Sahara desert, Border of Morocco and Algeria. NW Africa

Steven David Miller / Brumby (Equus caballus) feral horses, Muloorina Station, Sturt Stony Desert, South Australia

WILLIAM OSBORN / Sturts stony desert on the Birdsville track, South Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Namaqua Chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis) walking across stony sand, Skeleton Coast Namibia

Orsolya Haarberg / Mixed sedimentary rock ourctops, violet and green mudstones, grey and pink sandstones, yellow-grey dolomite and grey limestone, in stony desert, northeast coast of the Varanger peninsula, Norway. June...

Roland Seitre / Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) walking across stony desert, Sharjah, UAE.

Roland Seitre / Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) walking across stony desert, Sharjah, UAE

Roland Seitre / Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) walking across stony desert, Sharjah, UAE.

Roland Seitre / Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) walking across stony desert, Sharjah, UAE.

Roland Seitre / Arabian wolf (Canis lupus arabs) walking across stony desert, Sharjah, UAE.

Bruce Thomson / Spinifex pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) flock on stony desert floor, Diamantina River, Queensland, Australia.

Bruce Thomson / Spinifex pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) in open stony, desert, Diamantina River, Queensland, Australia.

Ugo Mellone / Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara)camouflaged on stony ground, Djebel Rich, Southern Morocco, Africa.

Robert Valentic / Ring-tailed dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus macropus) male, from a stony desert plain near Mount Isa in North West Queensland, Australia. Controlled conditions.