Other desert animals, like bats and gray foxes, are nocturnal—they only emerge after dark. To regulate their temperatures, turkey vultures and black vultures urinate down their legs .

Animals from the Big Bear Alpine Zoo left the Living Desert and returned home after evacuation warnings were lifted for the Line Fire. Dozens of zoo animals were evacuated last week due to the ...

By Thursday morning, the roughly 50 animals were already arriving in the desert. Included are small mammals and birds, which tend to be more easily affected by poor air quality from the wildfire ...

Hedgehogs and Hawks,Bald Eagles and Black Bears among animals relocated in caravan of vehicles to Palm Desert to escape the out-of-control flames sparked by an arsonist ...

Woll says these dangerous animals are part of the biodiversity of the High Desert, and she reminds residents that they are mostly reclusive and attack only out of defense. “Knowledge trumps fear ...

The animals, some of which have been rehabilitated at the Big Bear zoo, are staying in private areas of The Living Desert and aren’t available for public viewing.

As Central Australia's deserts increasingly resemble graveyards for small animals, scientists are giving them a helping hand by building them predator-proof homes.

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the (U.S. western) city of Tucson, Arizona is like no other in the world. It's a zoo, botanical garden and research organization. Most of the museum is outdoors ...

Desert ants have outstanding navigational skills. They live in the saltpans of North Africa, an extremely inhospitable environment. To find food for their nest mates, foraging ants have to walk ...

AMMAN — “The question of why there are no gazelles represented in the petroglyphs [designs pecked into a stone surface] remains puzzling,” said an American researcher who spent years studying the ...