Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.

With the way this year is going, the idea of living under a rock has become—possibly for the first time in our lives—alluring. But it turns out there’s a plant that beat us to it. That plant is moss.

Syntrichia caninervis, one of the most common Mojave Desert mosses, growing on the soil under a white milky quartz rock. Credit: Kirsten Fisher Desert mosses live a much different life than their ...

Microscopic Mojave Desert plants growing on the underside of translucent quartz pebbles can endure both chilly and near-boiling temperatures, scavenge nitrogen from the air, and utilize the equivalent ...

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...