Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the US state of New Mexico is home to a whole host of eye-catching animals – including ...

Habitat loss and fragmentation is often exacerbated in deserts, where many species are specialized to live in this habitat. Larger desert-living animals are also considered more extinction prone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Drought is a slow-moving catastrophe for most animals. Yet ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

A rare and heartwarming glimpse into desert wildlife captures a family of sand cats living together in their natural habitat. The footage filmed by Talal Al Rabah shows a mother sand cat resting ...

A desert big horned ram begins a jump down a steep incline on red slickrock.© MelaniWright/Shutterstock.com It's no surprise that a state as unique and fascinating ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) - News Channel 3's Tori King is getting a first look inside the habitat featuring the zoo's new bobcat kittens. The kittens, David and JoAnne, are siblings who were rescued ...

Experts at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens are now rolling back several bird flu precautions for their bird populations. "As we started seeing bird flu spreading throughout the country and moving ...

“The facts are clear. This groundwater mining proposal would drain the desert and rob the Mojave of its rare springs and wildlife habitat."—NPCA's Chance Wilcox, California Desert Associate Director ...

Tucked away from humans in hard-to-reach places, hundreds of artificial water catchments—AWCs, also known as guzzlers—dot the arid Southwest landscape, collecting rainwater for wildlife to drink.