Deserts are not easy places to call home. Broiling in the day, frigid at night, and lacking ample water, these landscapes test their inhabitants. The creatures that call deserts home have adaptations ...

In the struggle to survive the ever hotter deserts of California, there are winners and losers. Among the losers are desert birds, whose populations have collapsed amid the heat stress of climate ...

Plentiful winter rains followed by a mild start to spring is resulting in what naturalists call a "superbloom" throughout Southern California's desert landscapes. Wildflower enthusiasts can't get ...

For a moment, I thought I was looking into a mirror. An old and weathered face was staring at me. Snapping back to reality, I realized I was face to face with one of nature’s unique desert creatures, ...

Ecologists have no doubt that climate change will affect the earth's animals and plants. But how exactly? This is often hard to predict. There are already indications that some species are shifting ...

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

PHOENIX — The popular prehistoric Phoenix Zoo exhibit that debuted back in 2017 is back! That’s right — Dinosaurs in the Desert will open this October! “It’s the comeback tour and we’re excited ...

The vote wasn’t official, of course. But if audience consensus during a presentation last week of the “Vegas Night Life Animal Show” at the Springs Preserve means anything, public opinion is solid ...

Beneath a canopy of stars at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, a group of adventurers gather to seek out what others avoid — the desert’s most notorious inhabitants. Led by ...

BRIGHTER, LIGHTER NIGHTS, and Daylight Saving Time — that starts March 9 — can put a person in an illuminated state of mind. As the sunlight stretches into the mid-evening and we begin spending more ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. Dressed in matching blue Hawaiian shirts, Janelle Coleman, her husband and their 7 and 9-year-old sons were observing the sights and sounds of the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State ...