The Mexican gray wolf is not fully recovered. It still roams only a small patch of its former range in the Southwest—even though it once lived across much of Arizona, ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the ...

These native plants sustained Indigenous communities for generations. Now Utah students are bringing them back. Nibley • Inside Logan Canyon, hikers often walk past camas flowers, serviceberries and ...

W e humans bloomin' love a flower. Sniffing them, looking at them, lopping them off and popping them in vases. On land, there ...

Its fruits have a diameter of four to five centimetres, are fairly spherical, and are slightly meaty. The fruits, which are ...

The main island of Viti Levu. You’ve got some very interesting and fun activities in the highlands, like freshwater rafting, ...

Without planning, a landscape of California native plants can feel a little drab, especially in late summer when many go dormant. Here are 13 guaranteed to provide riotous color.

April was National Native Plant Month, also recognized as New Mexico Native Plant Month. Currant bushes, buffaloberry, willows and New Mexico olives have been flowering, attracting early pollinators.

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on floating vegetation.