Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field ...

By any description, the Gulf of California — located between Baja California and northwest Mexico — is a natural gem, ...

A longstanding theory in evolutionary biology is that venomous predators like rattlesnakes often develop complex venoms in ...

On remote islands in the Gulf of California, scientists uncovered a surprising twist in rattlesnake evolution: simpler venom ...

Plunging into the murky waters off the western coast of Mexico, scuba divers watched the marine life around them. One particular fish with “long” fins and a “stretched”-out look caught their attention ...

Flip Nicklin / Minden Pictures / National Geographic Creative I spent a few days walking the dry, shelly beaches where the Colorado River Delta meets the Gulf of California. I was with a group of ...

Scuba divers in the Gulf of California saw a longfin batfish, a non-native species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Plunging into the murky ...