Arizona’s deserts are home to some of the most shocking and elusive creatures on the planet. From bizarre nocturnal hunters ...
A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape once considered off limits before Homo sapiens came along.
Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore ...
Federal and state transportation agencies will halt planning activities for a proposed 280-mile highway between Nogales and Wickenburg in response to a lawsuit brought by conservationists.
The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered ... Desert and is critical for the species’ recovery ...
As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the ...
Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.
The GIB is a highly endangered bird species found in the Thar area of Rajasthan ... These birds are omnivorous and feed on insects and desert fruits. So, when their habitat is improved, they ...
So for now, they live with roughly 1,000 others of their species in a sheltered habitat ringed by barbed wire and draped in netting.
Considered an important pollinator for desert cactuses and agaves, the Mexican long-nosed bat was added to the federal list of endangered species in 1988. It is not to be confused with the Mexican ...