Genomic research led by the University of California at Berkeley has looked to uncover the origins and history of desert adaptation in foxes. In a paper, "North African fox genomes show signatures of ...

By Sean Mowbray More than a decade ago, conservationists began working to preserve a unique population of desert pampas cats ...

In northern Kenya, where the ground is arid, the sun is hot, and water is a daily grind, the people have created a life that has endured for centuries. Their territory extends into Uganda, South Sudan ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

Desert rodents have evolved a suite of genetic and physiological traits that enable survival in arid environments characterised by extreme heat, water scarcity and limited food resources. Key ...

Desert habitats are some of the harshest places on Earth: little water, scorching heat, and food sources loaded with salt make survival a constant battle. For chuckwallas and other desert lizards, ...

Deserts cover roughly one-third of Earth’s land surface and support specialised flora and fauna adapted to extreme aridity, temperature extremes and resource scarcity. Population dynamics in these ...

With a motto of slowly but surely, the desert tortoise is like a miniature four-wheel-drive vehicle clambering slowly along, negotiating steep rocky slopes by simply remaining in first gear. Found in ...

Learn how animals survive in the Mojave Desert and what defines a robot. Explore how animals have adapted to the harsh Mojave Desert climate with help from the Springs Preserve. Then Dr. Louis Rubbo ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers have contributed to a multi-institutional study of how the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya – who have lived for thousands of years in extreme ...

Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...