PHOENIX (AZFamily) —When it comes to one of the state’s most beloved animals ... With Arizona heating up, Sonoran desert tortoises are on the move just in their usual slow fashion.

Since then we've been fighting to protect desert tortoises and their habitat from development, off-road vehicles, oil and gas development, grazing, disastrous relocation projects, and much more. We ...

This is bad news for the Tucson shovel-nosed snake, a highly adapted animal ... in the draft Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan — and the plan could eventually provide some protection for the snake — ...

The curve-billed thrasher—the common thrasher of the rich, cactus-laden Sonoran Desert ... their bills are significantly shorter and less decurved. Adults distinctive; note different habitat ...

Lesser long-nosed bats are migratory animals ... in the Sonoran Desert and throughout Mexico. While they travel, these bats gather by the thousands in roosts where they rest and birth their ...