While deserts are often seen as lifeless wastelands, many harbor extraordinary and dangerous wildlife. From venomous sna ...

The two monuments singled out in the newly released Justice Department opinion were designated by Biden in his final days in ...

Not long ago, while walking up a gravel road in Bears Ears National Monument, my eye was distracted by a flash of brilliant, ...

The little stretch of desert where I live is blessed with ... but their sticks are smaller and harder to identify.) When the sand gets too hot, the lizard jabs the stick into the ground and ...

Colorado’s quadrant of the Four Corners is filled with secrets of the past in its rugged and sometimes desolate desert landscape ... head to the Sand Canyon South Trailhead in McElmo Canyon.

Desert dust may be particularly dangerous ... The fringe-toed lizard has evolved to dive into and swim though sand, with flaps over its eyes and mouth and fringey, webbed feet.

Why it's awesome: Thorny devils are native to Australia and live in the country's arid scrubland and interior desert. These small lizards grow ... bury themselves in sand to protect themselves ...

Thorny devils are native to Australia and live in the country's arid scrubland and interior desert. These small lizards grow to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long and have evolved an impressive set of ...

In the mid-1980s, Marriott took ownership of a field of sand dunes ... some rare lizards,” adds renowned hospitality architect Larry Stricker, who designed the JW Marriott Desert Springs ...

But its habitat includes sand and brush lying above ... for conservation in the West Texas desert. He has met with stakeholder organizations to explain the lizards’ plight and watched as ...