Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that live there are adapted to live in very hot and dry conditions. Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here. Incredibly ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - rainforests and ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

Researchers Find An ‘Alien Plant’ In The Utah Desert In 1969 ... the process of bringing extinct animals back to life. Scientists have just carried out an extensive study on two mysterious ...

Across the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's 98 acres, you'll find 230 animal species – including hummingbirds, coyotes and string rays – along with 1,200 local plant species. Next to the ...

When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis ... focus search efforts on specific regions where these plants grow. The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of ...

This includes 14 species of orchids — an unexpectedly high number for a desert state. In fact, that's more than Hawaii, which only has three. Overall, thousands of plants and animals have been ...