Many people think deserts are only hot, but the two largest deserts on Earth are actually cold deserts. Take a look at the ...

SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — On a hot morning in September, after hours of trekking through the Chihuahuan desert, Abbey Carpenter and her partner James Holeman spotted a pile of scattered bones. Near a ...

What’s new: A recent study has identified 16 new-to-science species of grasshoppers living in the deserts of the U.S. and ...

This article is co-published and co-reported with The Texas Tribune, an independent nonprofit newsroom. Editor’s note: This story includes images of skeletal human remains found by volunteers in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. By studying the physical characteristics of these grasshoppers, from the shapes and sizes to the colors of their body parts, the researcher found ...