Have you ever wondered about that lovely desert smell after a rain? Well, what you smell is the ancient creosote bush. Have you ever seen the pale green shrub that produces vibrant, yellow blooms ...

The power of a rattlesnake's venom to incapacitate its prey may depend on more than just its potency, or even the prey animal ...

The Colorado Desert in the eastern portion of the park features natural gardens of creosote bush, ocotillo and cholla cactus. The higher, slightly cooler Mojave Desert offers dazzling vistas of Joshua ...

Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

HABITAT: The desert tortoise lives in valleys, flat areas, and dry alluvial fans and washes. In the Mojave and Colorado deserts, tortoises are generally found below 4,000 feet in Joshua tree-Mohave ...

HABITAT: Ideal habitat for desert kit foxes are flat, arid desert lands with the fewest roads and dominated by flora such as creosote bushes and white bursage desert scrub or mixed desert salt scrub.