Hyenas are weird desert animals that are capable of living to be over 40 years old and are known for their unusual features and behaviors ...

This could be used to introduce students to the ecosystem of the desert and how people, plants and animals adapt to the conditions. Students could be given a list of plants or animals and asked to ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that ... actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of ...

Hot deserts are found near the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The largest hot desert is the Sahara in Africa which spans the whole width of the continent.

Not long ago, a clip of people driving around the Negev desert with ... within just any ecosystem. If they find their way out into the wild — which has already happened in Israel — they can become ...

1979) of the seeds by seed-eating insects and animals (Figure ... function and ecosystem dynamics: Contribution to ecological restoration in the southern Namib Desert. AMBIO 30, 29-36 (2001).

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

New research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert's ability to recover ... allowing for the occupation and movements of both animals and ...

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. New research shows its ...