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Your lips are chapped. Your hair unruly. Doorknobs greet you with an electric shock. The dry season has arrived in the Chihuahuan Desert region. While the aridity at times seems a hardship for us, it poses a true survival test for wildlife. How do desert animals get enough water to live?

Ever received an orchid for a special occasion? Or maybe you’ve walked through a hot, steamy, greenhouse, delighting in the color and shapes of the orchids on display. Without a doubt, orchids are special.

With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert bird unique?

Aldo Leopold's legendary essay collection, A Sand County Almanac, has inspired countless conservationists and earned Aldo Leopold a place alongside Henry David Thoreau in history. Who was Leopold? And how did he revolutionize our thinking about the natural world?

Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

After the rains, "rain bugs” or “Santa Claus bugs” appear, tiny velvety red plush cutie-pies. Even though they are called “bugs”, they are not insects at all, but arachnids, related to spiders.

This episode of Nature Notes was previously aired on January 30, 2013. Few people of the many hundred thousand living on or crossing the Llano Estacado…

How did the invention of the lawn mower shape what we now come to imagine as the perfect lawn? Modern lawns are considered boring , wasteful of water and…

Buying binoculars can be a confusing ordeal. There is much to consider, including optic types, size, weight, magnification and objective lens size. The…

There are many different cacti in the Chihuahuan desert but the Queen of the Night is unforgettable. For most of the year, the Queen of the Night is…