The northern desert night snake may look deadly, but rest assured, it is just pretending. Aptly named for how they emerge from crevasses and beneath rocks at night to hunt for food, these reptiles not ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 148-152 (5 pages) Little is known about many aspects of the ecology of the Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea). I studied the ecology of ...

In some of the world’s hottest and driest places, there live a few snakes that look quite different from others– they have ...

Beneath a canopy of stars at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, a group of adventurers gather to seek out what others avoid — the desert’s most notorious inhabitants. Led by ...

The external world can indeed leave us in awe at interactions between other animals, particularly when the two which are fighting are formidable predators. One of the most interesting such ...

Aug. 1—Though it might send a shiver down the spine of those suffering from ophidiophobia, rattlesnakes — even though they lack spines — are a lot like people. First and foremost, rattlesnakes are not ...

Last week's Associated Press photograph of a terrified little girl being carried among Iraqi families fleeing Basra robbed me of sleep that night. I feel for all those like her in Iraq living in fear ...