Reptiles in Oregon's high desert are quite widespread, though few are especially common. You may see lots at some times and ...

Why desert lizards are facing their own 'cost-of-living' crisis It's a well-known fact that lizards like to bask in the sun to regulate their body temperature. But global warming is putting them ...

Since then we've been fighting to protect desert tortoises and their habitat from development, off-road vehicles, oil and gas development, grazing, disastrous relocation projects, and much more. We ...

Desert lizards are facing a 'cost-of-living' squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature ...

These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop, but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows ...

Arizona State University School of Life Sciences researchers and their collaborators may have a new tool to help conserve the Mojave Desert tortoise -- an iconic desert reptile in the Southwestern ...

Pronghorn antelope, mule deer and grey fox roam the vast grasslands of the northern desert, while roadrunners, reptiles, jackrabbits and eagles live in the desert scrub. Little rain falls in the ...