From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Hyenas are weird desert animals that are capable of living to be over 40 years old and are known for their unusual features and behaviors ...

But have you heard about Hyrax, Addax, Peccary, Pronghorn, or Jerboa? These lesser-known desert animals are fascinatingly ...

Monitoring desert wildlife is a skill It's not always easy to see animals in the desert. Most are nocturnal, secretive, and spend much of their time underground. Numbers can fluctuate widely ...

There's plenty of air in the tiny spaces between grains of sand; the problem for sand-burrowing animals is how to get that air into their lungs while keeping the sand out ...

At first glance the desert environment might look barren and uninhabitable. But in between the sand dunes is a hidden world of wildlife that flourishes due to a very special set of amazing ...

In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the rare western wildflower Tecopa bird’s beak may qualify for protection ...