In a surprising result, scientists have found that the insect-eating pallid bat is a more effective pollinator of cardon cactus flowers than a nectar-feeding specialist, the lesser long-nosed bat. Of ...

During the month of June, the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States is best known for its extreme heat and lack of rainfall. Arizona set the record for the highest known ...

History records that when Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés led an expedition in 1535 to what we know today as Baja California, he was greeted by an army of giants — giant cacti, that is. The young ...

Organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) is one of three species of bat‐pollinated columnar cacti that co‐occur along the Gulf Coastal region of the Sonoran Desert in northwestern Mexico. Its ...