In a 2011 study, scientists declared that tortoises living north and west of the Colorado River — the Mojave population now called Agassiz's desert tortoises, or Gopherus agassizii — are officially a ...

are putting further pressure on the desert habitats in which certain types of lizard live. A better understanding of these ecological processes is crucial to identifying the most threatened ...

The first of their awesome assets is their eyes, with different types ... at least for some species. Scientists have ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed biophysical models that were confirmed with 2,685 field observations for 10 different desert lizard species throughout African and Australian deserts to ...

Desert lizards are facing a 'cost-of-living' squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...

Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature ...