A Mississippi State University scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove—16 new species of grasshoppers living in the ...

Desert animals adapt by eating water-storing plants or opportunistically feeding on moisture-rich insects and small animals ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The cyclical warming of the central Pacific may be causing droughts and floods, but in the vast desert of north Chile it has caused a vibrant explosion of flowers One of the driest places on Earth ...