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Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh ...
Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...
But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...
The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and cold at night but others, like the Gobi desert, can be a lot colder. A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that ...
The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...