The body features and habits of a living thing that help it to live in its surroundings is called Adaptation. [3:39]

Learn how to grow cacti and other succulent plants from seed. Site deals with winter care of seedlings, insect pests, germination, and much more.

This site has several pictures and links on the flora of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

Learn about different types of animals that live in the desert biome such as the cactus wren, the desert lark, the dingo, the fat sand rat, the fennec fox, the Gila monster, and so on. Animal pictures and information is taken from the...

This photo shows an interesting looking cactus plant that sits in a pot inside someone's home.

This site describes and provides many links to succulent plants. Many links and pictures are provided.

Investigate the theory that including desert plants such as mesquite and cactus in a diet can help control obesity and diabetes. Design a scientific experiment that will test this hypothesis, using control variables, observation and...

This site provides information on the Zilker Botanical Gardens located in Austin, Texas. If you click on "Main Features, there will be descriptions of all the small gardens within the large garden. You can also check out pictures of the...

Site from the Texas A & M University provides an alphabetical index to flowers.

Use this site to find out how deserts are formed, where the largest desert is located and if there are different types of deserts.

Mexican long-tongued bats feed on fruits, pollen, nectar, and probably insects. The populations that summer in the United States migrate to Mexico and northern Central America in winter, following the blooming cycle of plants such as...

Mesquite Mice live in dense mesquite thickets known as bosques. Although mesquite is the dominant plant in bosques, other desert plants such as palo-verde, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and grasses, mix with the mesquite. Learn more...