Along with an interdisciplinary team of scientists, the South African native leads harrowing research expeditions across the vast wetland wilderness as part of the National Geographic–funded ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood ...

Archeologists’ dreams of thrilling desert expeditions in search of ancient monuments conjure images of Indiana Jones spending months on end in his hat and khaki outfits in the cruel desert heat ...

In the arid mountains of Oman, some “cryptic”-looking creatures moved around on the rocks, occasionally pausing to do “push-ups” or inflate their bodies. These movements — a sort of visual ...

Our results therefore paint a picture of a species occupying a delicate position within the desert ecosystem. In recent years, one of us (Karl Vernes) has mounted several expeditions into the ...

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ...