Gopher plants’ two basic problems are related ... Pyracantha needs a lot of sun. It is not a desert plant but in the rose family, so it likes improved soils. It likes surface mulches made ...

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Males sometimes engage in ritualistic wrestling for the female, according to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Gopher snakes are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs. Females sometimes lay two batches ...

With the peak of rattlesnake season quickly approaching in the High Desert, it's as important as ever to learn how to keep ...

gopher snake, desert striped whipsnake Fossil Ridge area across state Route 159 from Red Rock's 13-mile driving loop (an impressive lizarding spot): Great Basin collared lizard, chuckwalla ...

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 ...