Snake season is in full swing across the High Desert. See these photos captured by High Desert residents of snakes in yards, around neighborhoods.

As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were doing ...

A judge ruled that federal land managers didn’t show how they minimized impacts to vulnerable species in an off-road vehicle management plan in the Western Mojave Desert. The area is home to the ...

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...

How much room do you need to survive? My personal space is best described in square miles; something akin to a national park will do just fine. But what about the small desert animals that I described ...

How can bighorn sheep, bears, mountain lions and other animals safely cross the increasingly busy Highway 62 in the Morongo Valley? The Mojave Desert Land Trust is hoping to construct a wildlife ...

Van Zyl’s golden mole is an extraordinary creature. It is more closely related to elephants than to the moles you might find in gardens and parks. It has no visible eyes or ears and it “swims” just ...

Reporting from BARSTOW — President Obama designated three new national monuments in the California desert Thursday, expanding federal protection to 1.8 million acres of landscapes that have retained ...

Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big ...

Anthrax is an infectious bacterial disease endemic in some parts of Africa. It affects people, livestock as well as wildlife. Using GPS telemetry data, a team of scientists reconstructed a special ...

A rare and heartwarming glimpse into desert wildlife captures a family of sand cats living together in their natural habitat.