Deserts are among the most extreme and hostile environments on Earth, with extreme temperatures, minimal rainfall, and sometimes severe flash floods when it does rain. These are hostile environments ...

Snakes are one of nature's most interesting survivors. Where most people imagine them basking in warm sun or hiding amongst ...

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Water sticks to the snakes’ backs because of special properties of their scales. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Water is scarce for many creatures in the Sonoran Desert in ...

In the U.S., there are roughly thirty species of venomous snakes, most of them rattlesnakes. Most people will never have a ...