The deserts of the southwestern United States may be the lair of secret ninja masters: desert kangaroo rats. Kangaroo rats can avoid attacks using their extremely sensitive hearing and by drumming ...

“I never did learn how to spell—but I did learn the typersetter’s rule—‘Set up the type as long as you can hold your breath without turning blue in the face, then put in a comma. When you gape (sic), ...

John Johnson covers California's central coast region for The Times I know people who are passionate about the desert. People who wax romantic about its withered plants and the scabrous creatures that ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- When threatened by a hungry snake in the wild, desert kangaroo rats have powerful and spectacular moves like ninja-style kicks and jumps in their arsenal to protect themselves. A ...

WWII: Desert Rats is a good example of a budget game done right. Instead of being a substandard clone of a full-priced game, it takes a unique little gameplay twist and milks it for all it's worth.

Battle of Tobruk is fought in The Desert Rats as a followup, but not a sequel, to The Desert Fox, the 1951 Field Marshal Rommel feature. Picture is a rather impersonal account of warfare that lacks ...

It doesn't lie or cheat, but one desert animal has no problem stealing from its unwitting neighbors. The pocket mouse, a tiny nocturnal rodent, survives by sneaking into neighbors' dens and pinching ...

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia. A recent ...