Imagine standing under the blinding sun of the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by towering, ancient sentinels with spiny arms ...

Two Indigenous food educators showcased the abundance of the Sonoran Desert during a tour for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference on April 25. Their wisdom, while better ...

Two Indigenous food educators led a tour showcasing edible and useful Sonoran Desert plants. Participants learned about palo verde flowers for tea, edamame-tasting pods and hunting woodrats.

Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field ...

Steve Blackwell, conservation collections manager at Desert Botanical Garden, and his team found themselves stumped by a ...

Photos: What migrants leave behind on their journeys through the desert Personal effects are scattered throughout the Sonoran Desert, where thousands of undocumented immigrants have died making ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

That family of cold water lovers features two species that make our list, including the widespread brook trout. Brookies live in cold, clear streams. Originally found in the eastern part of the ...

Prof Bernd Hänfling, one of the project's researchers, said the fish were a "keystone species" in many large, deep UK lakes. "Their adaptation to cold, clear water makes them highly vulnerable to ...

The fossil species, which has been named Vulcanidris cratensis, had scythe-like jaws that it likely used to pin or impale prey. “I was just shocked to see that weird projection in front of this ...

“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...