It seemed like a reasonable question. “What makes a seemingly rational person spend several days sitting in sizzling desert heat looking for wild animals that may or may not show up?” Patrick ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

There are a lot of ways, it turns out, to cope with unrelenting desert heat. Rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and many other desert-dwelling mammals and reptiles are crepuscular, meaning they are most ...

What role do deserts play in the world’s ecosystems? The desert habitat, it is a land of extremes: hot days, cold nights. But it is also home to a rich variety of plants and animals. How do they all ...

There are few places that will take in injured or abandoned wild animals in the Las Vegas Valley. Because wild animals can be hostile to humans and carry parasites and other diseases that may be ...

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 ...

Keeper Emily Kornmuller squirts several blobs of nontoxic paint on a blank canvas — preparing it for none other than two adorable javelinas at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. She straps the canvas ...

One of the rarest animals on Earth is slowly rebounding on the rock ledge of a remote water-filled Mojave Desert cavern — the only place where the species has ever been observed. The critically ...

While playing the Naturalist role in Red Dead Online, you’ll have to find and sedate a number of animals in different locations and bring their samples to Harriet. One of these set of locations is the ...

With openings in the fence and improved growth of plants vital for tortoise survival, solar farms in Nevada can provide better habitat than the surrounding desert. First Solar has found similar ...