The camouflaged reptile remained hidden until the homeowner noticed that “one of the rocks looked a little off.” ...

Nevada's desert landscape is truly breathtaking. It's also home to several creatures, some of which you should definitely be ...

A new study reveals the surprising ways rattlesnakes have evolved to collect water in the desert. By Jason Bittel You are in a desert and dying of thirst. All of a sudden, storm clouds appear ...

The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high-altitude semiarid” part of Somaliland, the study said. It has a ...

Rattlesnakes can be found across the entire range of the Americas, from southern Canada to central Argentina. However, they are most abundant and diverse in the desert regions of the southwestern ...

But as fires in the Big Desert become more common, populations of the snake have declined. Zoos Victoria senior biologist in herpetology Nick Clemann said in the late 70s and early 80s ...

Groundhog Day is upon us – even if it doesn’t matter so much here in the desert, where we wouldn’t mind if winter never ended ...

Oases in the desert, Southwestern streams are among the most delicate ecosystems on the planet. In these shallow, ephemeral waters, species like the Mexican garter snake once carved out a precarious ...

The American dream of owning a suburban home has led millions to settle on the outskirts of Tucson and Phoenix; today, more than 80 percent of Arizona's swiftly growing population lives in the Sonoran ...

Photo from Yasin Yusuf via Unsplash At first glance, the young creature caught in a desert of eastern Africa ... yet often misidentified group of snakes known as African House snakes, they wrote ...

“Rattlesnakes come out of their burrows in ... everything is out to get you here in the desert.” Less dramatic, but no less dangerous, are the inevitable golf cart accidents when golfers ...