The notion of the desert as wasteland and simultaneously utopia fascinates architectural historian Luke Leuschner and causes him to chase after some seriously esoteric questions. The resultant mystery ...

A monkey at the top of a tree in Africa seemed to have no way of escaping a leopard that had climbed halfway up the tree and was closing in. But the monkey had a clever plan. The monkey outsmarted the ...

No Vacancy is a monthly feature showcasing the small hotels, motels and inns across the Coachella Valley. It’s been years since the little hotel on East Racquet Club Road on the north side of Palm ...

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

The lone tree with the spindly branches twisting in all directions along North Albina Avenue doesn't look like any of its neighbors. It's also the only tree with a sign slung around its trunk asking ...

For 150 years, it has stood in splendid serenity on the village green, harming no one and pleasing many. Over the decades, the monkey puzzle tree at West Cross, near Swansea, became a much-loved local ...

Do you ever find an animal that smears up sunscreen and uses it to shield itself? The waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) has developed a remarkable survival method in the forests of the Gran ...

A rare species of frog that walks like a monkey because of its opposable thumbs has been discovered in forests in northern Brazil. The amphibian, which is known as the monkey tree frog, was found ...