Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren ... This suggests they remained genetically isolated despite practicing animal husbandry — a cultural innovation that originated outside ...

windblown deserts that are aloof to living animals. Some deserts are loaded with plants, particularly ones that have advanced to hold water, like desert flora and different succulents. There are hot, ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places ... This suggests they remained genetically isolated despite practicing animal husbandry - a cultural innovation that originated ...

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 ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Reports of a dinosaur-like beast known as the Mokele-mbembe are on the rise in The Democratic Republic of Congo ...