The most famous hot and dry desert animal is the camel. They can go up to eight days without water and can drink 40 gallons at once. Oh, and those humps, they don't store water, they store fat.

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

One May night, a lone coyote emerged from a dry desert wash outside Phoenix, ducked beneath the metal bar of a specially-designed livestock fence, walked up a concrete ramp, and took its nightly ...

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. Animals don't choose their habitat because they are suited to it.

Desert mule deer, for instance, ... That process doesn’t work when the animal’s food is dry and crispy. Deer stuck in dry areas might also give birth to fewer fawns.

As a boy in the late 1940s, Harry Quinn hiked with his family to a desert spring in the Santa Rosa Mountains where cool water flowed into an oasis filled with tadpoles. Now the spring is dry. The ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...