Carr came up with the idea. His friend Arthur Pack was the benefactor. In 1952, they opened the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Located 12 miles west of Tucson, it opened under a different name.

Desert dwellers - whether they have two legs ... of critters can cause the biggest of headaches. Say hello to the pack rat. Find wiring chewed through in the car? It might be a pack rat.

In 1950, the couple moved to Tucson ... museum along with Arthur Pack (namesake of the golf course), who helped finance the museum. The encounter led to Gras hosting the museum’s TV show ...

The Palm Springs Historical Society opens Oct. 23 with a season-long exhibit devoted to Sinatra in the desert. I’ll be co-hosting a Rat Pack trivia ... the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles also ...

Smith, who studies mostly desert insects, realized that ancient pack rat nests, called middens ... was compared with genomes of modern and museum beetle specimens to confirm the species. The beetles ...

A real pack rat doesn’t store junk in its bedroom ... The more eclectic hoarder species segregate pantry from lumber room from junk museum. The result is more orderly than the closets of ...

Scientists worked out what lived in part of the Western United States tens of thousands of years ago by studying DNA found in pack rat middens ... to a natural history museum.

Consider that shorthand, though, for the range of exhibits -- more or less the Mesozoic Era to the Ring-a-Ding-Ding-ozoic Era -- at the new, 70,000-square-foot Nevada State Museum up the hill from ...

That concern and care will be on display again Friday, June 13, as The Rat Pack Now begins its three-week run at the museum’s theatrical venue. It is the fourth year of the show’s presentation ...

Any visit to Tucson should include a day at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, just one of a dozen-plus attractions around the cultural capital of Arizona. The museum feels more like a zoo ...

What: Dress up in your best vintage gear for a Rat Pack-themed trivia night at the Ace Hotel and Swim Club in Palm Springs. Who: Desert Sun reporters Bruce Fessier and Brett Kelman will host the ...

After an attack at a Tucson museum this week, the Arizona Game and Fish Department submitted the bodies of two foxes for rabies testing. An employee at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum was ...