Food is sometimes scarce in arid country, and birds have their own ways of coping. One of the most remarkable southwestern species, the greater roadrunner, eats just about anything it can catch.

The VistaVision-Technicolor photographic excursion through the southwest - presenting in bold and colorful outline the arid country and areas of buttes and giant rock formations - is eyefilling ...

Botswana, a sparsely populated and arid country in southern Africa, is the biggest producer of diamonds by value and the second biggest by volume behind Russia. Diamonds account for around 80% of ...

The species, named for its distinct “eyebrows” and throat color, was found 215 miles away from its closest known location in ...