Groups of 15 to 20 people armed with ultraviolet flashlights fanned out into the desert off Snow Creek Road and Highway 111 Tuesday night, keeping their eyes trained on the sand as they moved slowly ...
About 50 people gathered in the Art Smith parking lot of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument on a balmy Saturday evening. They chattered and smiled as they took swigs of water ...
Scientists found a venomous animal hunting and burrowing in the San Joaquin Desert and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Jain, Forbes, Gorneau and Esposito (2023) Under the sweltering ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) is found in North Africa and the Middle East. Deserts are not easy places to ...
The very thought of getting close to a scorpion may sound scary to some. It’s understandable, considering that they have a stinger at the end of their tail and pincers at the front that don’t look so ...
The heat of the late summer evening was still simmering as I gazed into the sky to find Antares, the bright red heart of the constellation Scorpio. Hanging above me at the western edge of the Milky ...
It's common to see scorpions skittering across the Arizona desert. But a home built in the shape of a scorpion? That caused us to do a double take. Its curved concrete walls fit into the surrounding ...
LOST DUTCHMAN STATE PARK, Arizona (AP) — As the setting sun left a yellow tinge on dirt-colored cactuses as far as the eye could see, park ranger Anna Roberts gave us a lesson on what we were about to ...
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 ...