The Center for Biological Diversity says they will continue to seek protections for the animal in the near future.

At 17 inches or less, the Tucson shovel-nosed snake may be small, but it makes the most out of its size. Living in the sandy soils found on valley floors in the upper Sonoran Desert, the snake has ...

Arizona’s Saguaro National Park is situated in the Sonoran desert, which is known for its diversity of dangerous snakes and other reptiles. There are six species of rattlesnakes that can be ...

a Sonoran Desert sidewinder, a tiger rattlesnake and “a trio of tiny newborn rattlesnakes that are less than a week old.” Any one of the snakes — the biggest of which was 3 feet long — has ...