A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

Meet kachri, Rajasthan’s wild mini watermelon — tiny in size, mighty in flavour, and a secret ingredient in the desert’s most ...

The small desert-dwelling potoroid marsupial is now ... could help to focus search efforts on specific regions where these plants grow. The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves ...

The small plant, officially named Ovicula biradiata and more affectionately called “wooly devil,” was first spotted in March 2024, sprinkled among desert rocks in a remote, northern stretch ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

The small desert-dwelling potoroid marsupial is now ... could help to focus search efforts on specific regions where these plants grow. The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves ...

For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...