Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

This little lizard can fire blood up to 5 feet from its face, has spiky horns and inflates itself to choke predators. Why they're awesome: Greater short-horned lizards have a squat, flat shape and ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Name: Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) Where they live: North and Central ...

STAMFORD — There’s probably not much chance that if you grew up in Texas and are of a certain age that you didn’t catch and keep a horned lizard as a pet. Of course, you called it a horny ...

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge partially ruled in favor of environmental groups in their suit challenging the Bureau of Land Management's approval of route networks ...

WHAT: Fifty newly freed lizard hatchlings in Blanco County. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: The Texas horned lizard, affectionately called the horny toad or horned frog, is in trouble. The population of the ...

When Roy Richards spotted workers cutting down and shredding Joshua trees for a sprawling solar energy project near his Mojave Desert home last week, he started taking photos. “Once the trees go ...

BLANCO COUNTY — A crowd of people gathered to watch as the tiny lizards took their first, cautious steps, tentatively testing the sandy soil beneath their feet. The young Texas horned lizards ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.