Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

Sicarius Hahni is a tiny but deadly spider that lives in arid, desert regions. Learn more about this sand spider and why it buries itself.

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as researchers ...

Martin Goodman’s new book, ‘My Head For a Tree’, chronicles the struggles of the Bishnoi community, especially their crusade ...

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its ...

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and even hippos roamed. Acacia trees and wildflowers lined the water’s edge, while ...

Isn’t the desert just sand, rocks, and scrub? Only in movies and TV shows. Deserts support abundant, diverse plant and animal life that can’t be found anywhere else, provide speculator views ...

Away from Palm Springs' tourist areas, you’ll find trails scattered across the valley that locals like me love. They’re ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...