Think the yellow sprinkling of flora alongside the I-17 highway is testament to a beautiful blooming spring? Think again.

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...

Without them, there’d be no food, no fuel, no animals ... so different species can fill in for one that’s been lost. But not always. Like, in North America’s Sonoran Desert, the iconic ...

Local plant experts don’t know what is causing some Saguaros to snap like a twig after some cactuses lost arms or fell apart ...

a cactus species. I didn't realize how special that was as a child, but exploring the park as an adult gave me a better appreciation for the landscape of the Sonoran Desert where I grew up.

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be ...

From Acadia to Zion, the U.S. has some pretty majestic national parks. Here’s one fun fact about every single one—plus a map ...

The desert teaches us about the marvels of adaptations. Relentless sun, hot summers and little water can make it a forbidden world to non-desert dwellers, yet hundreds of plant and animal species have ...

Billie’s not keen on having a gecko in the house—even less so after we discover two in different rooms the next day—but lizards are lucky, I say. Mistaken first for a scorpion, a little illusion young ...

The Americas' executive producer Mike Gunton told IndieWire about discovering new species and filming beloved animals in new, ...

Researchers said they named the third new species Pristurus feulneri, or Feulner’s semaphore gecko, after Gary Feulner, an American naturalist, “for his 39 years of dedication” and research ...

Some Animals Cooperate With Members of Other ... This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological ... Plant's Name-Giving Feature Found to Be New ...