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 ...

Now that I've experienced snakes, scorpions and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, I consider myself an old-time resident of Tucson. First I encountered a large snake coiled up at my front door. I was ...

This is the bizarre moment a thirsty snake was given a potentially life saving drink by a good Samaritan in an arid desert. The alluring footage shows the reptile eagerly taking in the water through a ...

A team of celebrities including singer Olly Murs and presenter Dermot O'Leary have been warned to look out for deadly snakes as they prepared to trek across the desert in aid of Comic Relief. The nine ...

A little Saharan lizard "swims" through desert sands by undulating its body in a series of wave-like motions, a new study finds. The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a small lizard typically about 4 ...