Had cockroaches not been able to survive for the past 300 million years, Earth would not be as healthy as it is today.

Picture this: a silent, golden landscape stretches endlessly beneath a burning sun. You might think nothing could survive ...

The Living Desert is now the home of two bobcat kittens, who were abandoned in a cardboard box in Oregon at just a few weeks ...

In some of the toughest environments on Earth– think endless deserts and dry, cracked lands– certain animals have figured out how to live without drinking water. Not just for days, but sometimes for ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre appears set to fill for only the fourth time in 160 years.

This deep-sea crab lives near hydrothermal vents, where few animals can survive. Its “hairy” claws are covered in bacteria, which may help detoxify its environment—or even provide a food source.

Two bobcat kittens, who were abandoned in Oregon at just a few weeks old, were unable to be released into the wild. Staff from The Living Desert brought them back to the Coachella Valley and began ...

World Camel Day highlights their value in climate-affected areas and their growing role in future farming and daily life.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the ...

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America and one of the heaviest snakes on the ...

Keep plants watered Water is precious where we live. But the desert also isn’t the wasteland it’s often made out to be in popular culture.