Beginning just after sunset, you’ll follow a one-mile loop through the towering saguaros and desert landscape, while learning ...

From rattlesnakes to cottonmouths, venomous snakes remain a backyard reality across much of the U.S. Here are the most common ...

The desert may seem like the last place you'd expect to find flora. Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world.

Early Hohokam lived in pithouses dug into the ground with walls made of wood, brush, and clay. These partly underground homes ...

The offspring of crosses between related species can sometimes fill a new environmental niche, and such hybridizations may even lead to speciation. Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens ...

Boaters got “lucky enough” to spot a plethora of sea creatures off the coast of California, spotting multiple species in one ...

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

According to previous estimates, the eastern population of migratory monarchs has declined by as much as 84 percent between 1996 and 2014. Worse still is the fate of the western migratory monarchs ...

Wildlife photographer Randy Robbins has captured a video of one of the rarest mammals on Earth at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

From Alaska across southern Canada all the way south to Tierra del Fuego — the southernmost point of South America — ...