America is a continent of extremes. Within its borders you can find bone-dry Mojave desert floors where surface temperatures ...

Petrified Forest National Park spans around 346 square miles of semi-desert shrub steppe and highly eroded and colorful badlands in northeastern Arizona. The park is a blend of short grass prairie and ...

Desert habitats are extreme. Therefore, it seems odd that fish could survive such environments. However, there are several ...

PALM DESERT – The Living Desert’s collection of arid-zone animals is continuing to expand, the zoo announced Wednesday, with the addition of a fossa from North Dakota. Shilo, 3½, is the parks’ first ...

If fashion is the mirror of society, the recent Zoobilee gala in support of The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens confirms that the stylish set of the Coachella Valley is decidedly taking a walk on the ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

BRIGHTER, LIGHTER NIGHTS, and Daylight Saving Time — that starts March 9 — can put a person in an illuminated state of mind. As the sunlight stretches into the mid-evening and we begin spending more ...

How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brianna Randall writes about the intersection of travel and science. My son gasped in delight as the mama giraffe’s black tongue ...

Experts at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens are now rolling back several bird flu precautions for their bird populations. "As we started seeing bird flu spreading throughout the country and moving ...