A lack of veterinary care doesn’t just put animal welfare at risk – it can also increase inequity in society, and threaten ...

Ringtail is Arizona’s state mammal, designated in 1986 to highlight regionally tied symbols. Ringtails are nocturnal, desert-adapted raccoon-like carnivores about the size of a house cat with a ringed ...

Around the world, rising temperatures and erratic weather are forcing animals to adapt in startling ways – with consequences ...

The greening of the Thar Desert, driven by a dramatic rise in rainfall and human interventions like canals, is not only transforming the arid landscape but also its ecosystem ...

Deserts are very harsh places as they are very hot by day, cold by night, and often with little water or food. However, they have been inhabited by people and they have been travelling across deserts ...

You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with thousands of rock holes—natural rainwater reservoirs that act as little oases ...

Brock A. Hedges received funding from Nature Foundation, The Ecological Society of Australia and the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment. Brock A. Hedges currently receives funding from ...

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is celebrating a new addition to its animal family — a group of Patas monkeys, the first monkeys ever to call the zoo home. Their new habitat officially opens to the ...

Griet Van Malderen's photography captures the desert lions' adapting to new terrain and a diet of seals Griet Van Malderen A pack of desert lions in Namibia has adapted to the rugged terrain of the ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

NEFUD DESERT, SAUDI ARABIA—Researchers were recently surprised when they encountered more than 60 ancient rock art panels lining the mountainous terrain of the Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia, ...