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 ...

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 ...

Hitting the desert trails often is a Southern Nevada spring hiker’s key to keeping company with lizards. After hiding for months from winter’s cooler temperatures, western zebra-tailed lizards have ...

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 ...

The external world can indeed leave us in awe at interactions between other animals, particularly when the two which are fighting are formidable predators. One of the most interesting such ...