Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for all these animal and plants species, and the ...

Gypsum landscapes occur globally, but they abound in the Chihuahuan Desert, from Coahuila and Durango to the Guadalupe ...

Unsurprisingly, El Paso's hot climate is a result of its location in the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends through parts of western Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Mexico. The Centennial ...

White Sands National Park is located at the north end of the Chihuahuan Desert and is so barren that even the few plants and animals that do exist there struggle to do so. The animals which have ...

As climate change makes South Texas' summers hotter and winters more likely to bring freezes, homeowners may want to reconsider their landscaping plants.

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene.

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It's also home to incredible desert plants and animals. The park is home to numerous ... It's actually a portion of the ...

Deep beneath the Chihuahuan Desert in southern New Mexico is a labyrinth of more than 300 limestone caves, carved over 250 million years ago. The park also preserves biologically diverse desert lands ...

July 11, 2024 • At sunset tonight, a few thousand Mexican long-nosed bats will fly from a cave high in the Chisos Mountains. They'll disperse to feast on agave nectar — pollinating the iconic ...

Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods ... Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA (1977-2013). Ecology 97:1082 (Data paper) Allington ...