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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Masters' snake, known to be sensitive to fire, has been found on private, unburnt land in the Victorian Mallee.

a black-tailed rattlesnake, a Sonoran Desert sidewinder, a tiger rattlesnake and “a trio of tiny newborn rattlesnakes that are less than a week old.” Any one of the snakes — the biggest of ...