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 ...

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.

Deserts are home to thousands of animal species but not all are common knowledge. You have heard about camels, rattlesnakes, and scorpions. But have you heard about Hyrax, Addax, Peccary ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past ...

These biomes are unique regions with specific flora and fauna. For example, the desert biome is dry with few food sources and barely any water. The jungle is a warm biome with dense trees and animals.

The desert spadefoot toad hibernates in a burrow excavated in the sandy desert, while Spencer's Burrowing Frog also digs deep into the moist sand of central Australia's dry riverbeds.