A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up ...

A new species of sunflower, Ovicula biradiata, has been identified in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This discovery, made by a park volunteer, marks the first new genus of plant documented in a U.S.

Restoring the natural balance in today’s West will involve humans, predators and other animals, a fragile balancing act that ...

Extending from the southeastern US states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas deep into central Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert offers a kaleidoscope of textures and colours that shape its unique ...

Unsurprisingly, El Paso's hot climate is a result of its location in the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends through parts of western Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Mexico. The Centennial ...

It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow. Study of vocalizations, bill structure and size, tail shape ...