Deserts are among the most extreme and hostile environments on Earth, with extreme temperatures, minimal rainfall, and sometimes severe flash floods when it does rain. These are hostile environments ...

One warm early summer evening I heard a huge racket outside in the driveway. From a second story deck I looked down and there were a group of cactus wrens surrounding a large rattlesnake stretched out ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2015. One warm early summer evening I heard a huge racket outside in the driveway. From a second story deck I looked down and ...

Dan Massey bends down and shines a flashlight into the narrow mouth of a rock outcropping, about 100 feet up a hill. It’s a known den for black-tailed rattlesnakes. One is coiled close to the opening ...

Alex Goligoski got a phone call this summer from his landscaper, notifying him that a monsoon storm had blown through his neighborhood and popped open a door on his house. He didn’t think much of it ...

Australia's deadliest snakes are out in force in the Red Centre after a busy breeding season. An Alice Springs snake catcher says snakes are coming closer to town after recent bushfires Deadly western ...

Deserts are home to various snake species that have adapted to survive extreme conditions, from the highly venomous Inland Taipan in Australia to the colorful and non-venomous Thornscrub Hook-Nose ...