Two hyenas, a bighorn sheep and a porcupine have joined the animals who can be seen on exhibit at the Living Desert zoo and gardens in Palm Desert. The male desert bighorn sheep has been brought in ...

Standing on 6 acres of vacant, dusty land that will soon be transformed into an admissions plaza and botanical gardens leading to new animal exhibits, officials broke ground on the next chapter in The ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) - The Living Desert announced the death of the zoo's striped hyena Kipenzi, affectionately known as Kip by guests and those who cared for him. Kip arrived at the Living ...

The animals help redistribute calcium and phosphorous by crunching bones. This is an Inside Science story. The crushing jaws of hyenas may act as a kind of nutrient blender, grinding out calcium and ...

Different species of carnivores don’t get along. At best, they’re in direct competition for prey. At worst, they turn each other into prey. But recently, zoologists found that two predators are ...

Hyenas and wolves in the Negev Desert have reached an alliance in their quest for survival, according to a new study produced by researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. This finding ...

There’s been a Middle East peace pact for some time now. The deal was struck quietly in the arid desert of southern Israel, probably because the two sides decided they needed each other to survive. No ...

It is often true in life that adversity makes humans more likely to lean on one another. That theme of interdependence in hard times apparently holds true in the animal kingdom, according to a new ...