Desert-dwelling snakes inhabit every desert on Earth. From the Australian outback to the desert southwest in North America, you can be sure to find at least one species of potentially dangerous snake.

People, plants and animals have adapted and learnt to live ... and Ferne explains how Bedouin people have adapted to live in desert conditions. This clip is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes.

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years.

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. Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here. Incredibly ...

Curious about animals that eat cactus plants? Read on to learn about seven animals that expertly chow down on cacti and how they avoid harm.

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 ...

While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as ...

For years, the Endangered Species Act has been interpreted in a way that preserves the environments where endangered and threatened plants and animals live. A proposed regulatory change by the ...