Arizona is constantly facing significant challenges in managing invasive species, which are often aided by climate change. Invasive plants like buffelgrass, stinknet, and salt cedar outcompete native ...

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

A beloved ocelot at the North Carolina Zoo has died less than a year after losing her partner, the zoo announced Tuesday. Inca was 21, well beyond the typical life ...

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is where train dreams come true, whether you’re five or seventy-five. This place proves that trains never go out of style, no matter how many cars and planes we invent ...

The North Carolina Zoo announced Tuesday that Inca, its last remaining ocelot, died at the advanced age of 21 — well beyond the 15-to-20-year life expectancy for ocelots in human care and nearly ...

Memo, the zoo's lone remaining jaguar, came to The Living Desert 12 years ago from Panama. He'd been rescued after being kept ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

A recent study from the University of Cologne has revealed that microscopic soil worms called nematodes form surprisingly ...

The planning process for two wildlife crossings will begin in the California desert thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant announced last Thursday. The crossings over State Route 62 will ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

Villages can provide important habitats for insects. A new study by the University of Würzburg shows which areas in rural settlements are particularly rich in species – and where there is still room ...