News Channel 3's Caitlin Thropay has been following the making of "Australian Adventures" since the beginning. Shelly is a five-year-old tawny frogmouth. She's named after Shelly Beach in Australia.

News Channel 3's Caitlin Thropay has been exclusively following the progress of the new "Australian Adventures" exhibit at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert. We spoke with the zoo's ...

Deserts are not easy places to call home. Broiling in the day, frigid at night, and lacking ample water, these landscapes test their inhabitants. The creatures that call deserts home have adaptations ...

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As fears about the rapid spread of the coronavirus worldwide forces the closure and cancellation of many programs and events in the Coachella Valley, The Living Desert remains open and next week will ...

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...

A new species of venomous snake has been discovered in Australia. What is now known as the Desert Whip Snake, Demansia cyanochasma, was discovered by DNA researcher James Nankivell at The University ...

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 ...