Ringtail is Arizona’s state mammal, designated in 1986 to highlight regionally tied symbols. Ringtails are nocturnal, desert-adapted raccoon-like carnivores about the size of a house cat with a ringed ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...

The desert dunes of Dubai have some unexpected guests—a pack of rodents native to Argentina … and they seem to be thriving in their new home. Numbers of Patagonian mara—rodents with rabbit-like ears, ...

AL QUDRA LAKES, United Arab Emirates — A desert oasis hidden away in the dunes in the far reaches of skyscraper-studded Dubai has drawn a surprising new set of weary world travelers: a pack of ...