Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a vast range of habitats. From land to sea, there are forests, mountains, ...

When desert animals face environmental extremes day in and day out, every unique anatomical feature can aid in their survival ...

Our goal organizing this work was to update the landmark 1991 volume, 'Battle Against Extinction', and provide scientists and the public with a contemporary view of the status of aquatic ecosystems in ...

The High Desert Museum's avian flight program, Raptors of the Desert Sky, features owls, hawks and other birds of prey that swoop low over the crowd. The High Desert Museum in Bend has received ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...