This snake is ready to shed its skin, called being "in the blue," and it actually shows some blue coloring on the head and lower sides. Black adult, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County ©Colin Byrne. Black Southern Pacific rattlesnakes are not uncommon in southern California mountain...
Jay Snow took this series (left to right, top to bottom) of a Red Racer trying to eat a live Southern Desert Horned Lizard over a period of 44 minutes. The snake failed to swallow the lizard and crawled away. In the last picture you can see that the lizard lay prone for several min...
When it comes to retailing, Stephen Burke is king at the Magic Kingdom. The 29-year-old Harvard Business School graduate masterminded the bold adventure known as the Disney Stores. Since March, the Walt Disney Co.’s three stores in California have been wildly successful and are expected to...