The Sonoran Desert is a world like no other—an expansive, living landscape where rugged mountains, gigantic cacti, and an astonishing diversity of life create an ecosystem of wonder. Covering more ...

The chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal of a Winona County board's denial to waive the ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret.

The Book of Life, argues that the climate movement is thinking about its work, and messaging, all wrong. “Those who call ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...

Workers at this largescale operation often blow up rock formations to reach their payloads ... scambus was a comparatively small animal, with a leg height ranging from around 10 centimeters ...

This is the challenge faced by hotels built within Latin America ’s vast desert landscapes. Defined by their extreme aridity ...

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

Cerapodans were small, plant-eating dinosaurs that scampered around on two legs. Come the Cretaceous, the fossil record tells ...

Two other major prehistoric discoveries have been made on the Isle of Skye: young and adult Krusatodons showing how dinosaurs ...

An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...