Growing up in the west, I don’t recall seeing any lizards. Admittedly, I don’t look down much when I am outside as I am too ...

Growing up in the west, I don’t recall seeing any lizards. Admittedly, I don’t look down much when I am outside as I am too busy looking around for game and just about everything else.

Short horned Lizard. Ninety99nineTK, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Horned lizards are easily identified by their broad, flattened bodies and crown of spines that frame their heads. These ...

Unlike many lizards that can shed their tails as a distraction, horned lizards have short, non-detachable tails, which led to the evolution of alternative defense strategies. Their cryptic coloration ...

You weigh short-term stress against long-term impact ... There’s a lizard that shoots blood from its eyes. The horned lizard can squirt blood as a defense mechanism against predators.

At a time when you can drive through the landscape and see so many of the old black or spotted sheep, white long-horned cattle ... egg-laying areas for sand lizards, while mining insects pit ...

Tomorrow will be the second anniversary of our mother’s death. In honor of her (and with Mother’s Day this coming Sunday), I ...

Instead of the light shining all night long, it will only click on for a short period of time if something ... America include the mourning dove, horned lark, American avocet, lesser nighthawk ...

Flores Peak is at the top of a primitive and very steep trail above Gibraltar Rock. The Wednesday night hiking group ...

Instead of the light shining all night long, it will only click on for a short period of time if something passes ... Ground-nesting birds native to North America include the mourning dove, horned ...