Bobcats in the American Southwest have adapted to their harsh desert environment by resting on saguaro cacti. Their tough paw ...

Four dozen tiny pupfish are swimming in a constructed habitat in a giant glass structure once meant to house humans.

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department has collected newf data indicating that feral burros are impacting plants in the Sonoran ...

You’ve heard of ramps and paw paws, but have you ever tasted Virginia’s own prickly pear cactus fruit? The fuchsia colored ...

As wild burro populations grow, they're putting native vegetation at risk, a new study shows, including the saguaro cactus.

In Mexico, September means chiles en nogada season. But one key ingredient, a candied barrel cactus called biznaga, is now ...

The pitaya (Hylocereus spp.) is a new and promising fruit in the market, and is produced by several related species belonging to the family Cactaceae. Although originating in the tropical and ...

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Abstract: The identification of cactus species depended on manual assessment conducted by professionals. The manual evaluation is laborious and inconsistent because of the nuanced differences in ...

It's not every day that a species makes it off the endangered list — but the Colorado hookless cactus is having a good year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently reported that the ...