The Onymacris plana, a darkling beetle, is the first known land animal that gets cooler as it exercises, scientists said.

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How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Drought is a slow-moving catastrophe for most animals. Yet ...

Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard, the 'cost-of-living' is tightly linked to its body temperature, which ...

Deserts cover roughly a third of Earth’s land surface, and they’re far more varied and extreme than most people realise. […] ...