Tardigrades, also known as "water bears," can survive severe temperatures, by entering a state of cryptobiosis. The fennec fox is native to the Sahara Desert and has enormous ears that radiate heat, ...

From the arid deserts of the Negev to the lush forests of Galilee, Israel is home to a variety of unusual wild animals that ...

A Colombian rancher has discovered a fossilized bone that points to the existence of a giant terror bird species. The fossil, ...

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

While visitors want to see iconic species like bighorn sheep and bears in other parks, in the desert, tortoises take the top ...

Archaeologists discovered a walled city in the northern Saudi Arabian desert that was likely home to 500 people as far back as 2,400 B.C. The experts believe the city’s roughly 1,000 years of use ...

Sand Gazelles: They can go for long periods without water, relying on the moisture content in the plants they eat. Scorpions: These arachnids can survive for months without water, slowing their ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Throughout the Colorado River Basin, ongoing drought is pushing desert farmers to their limits. Can agriculture technology ...

The fossil of a massive predator called a terror bird that roamed South America 12 million years ago is from the largest ...