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

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and ... This suggests they remained genetically isolated despite practising animal husbandry – a cultural innovation that originated outside ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in ... Details of Animal Tissues Mar. 18, 2025 ...

The desert is home to more than 130 species of mammals, such as the Mule deer and pronghorn. The kit fox roams the vast grasslands of the northern desert. The Chihuahuan Desert boasts 3,000 plant ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

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

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded ...

Arizona's iconic Saguaro cactus is dying off at an intense rate with the Desert Botanical Garden saying nearly 20% of their ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...