From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2015. One warm early summer evening I heard a huge racket outside in the driveway. From a second story deck I looked down and ...

Deserts are among the most extreme and hostile environments on Earth, with extreme temperatures, minimal rainfall, and sometimes severe flash floods when it does rain. These are hostile environments ...

A new species of venomous snake has been discovered in Australia. What is now known as the Desert Whip Snake, Demansia cyanochasma, was discovered by DNA researcher James Nankivell at The University ...

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel. While studying that motion to learn how limbless animals ...

Dan Massey bends down and shines a flashlight into the narrow mouth of a rock outcropping, about 100 feet up a hill. It’s a known den for black-tailed rattlesnakes. One is coiled close to the opening ...

Mojave Greens, Sidewinders, rattlers- the Mojave Desert is writhed with native snake species. Some, like the California Kingsnake and gopher snake, are harmless; others, like the Southern Pacific ...

Alex Goligoski got a phone call this summer from his landscaper, notifying him that a monsoon storm had blown through his neighborhood and popped open a door on his house. He didn’t think much of it ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- When threatened by a hungry snake in the wild, desert kangaroo rats have powerful and spectacular moves like ninja-style kicks and jumps in their arsenal to protect themselves. A ...