Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

Humans, among other species, are attracted to color. For at least 100,000 years, humans have been creating colors from ...

While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as researchers ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is well worth a visit anytime, in any season, with or without butterflies.

Isn’t the desert just sand, rocks, and scrub? Only in movies and TV shows. Deserts support abundant, diverse plant and animal life that ... to view indigenous cave art. See native wildlife ...

Although it's called a "museum," this facility, which is home to animals, a botanical garden, an aquarium and an art ... the desert landscape via animal exhibits that mingle with native plants.

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and even hippos roamed. Acacia trees and wildflowers lined the water’s edge, while ...

The young and young at heart alike starting Saturday will enjoy an entirely new outdoor play experience at the High Desert Museum. Years in the making, the E. L. Wiegand Ponderosa Playscape will open ...

Gopher tortoises, fiddler crabs, African termites, giraffes and beavers are among the animals that could inspire cooling ...