Deep in the heart of the Sahara Desert, scientists have discovered something that defies all logic — an ancient whale ...

Hailstorms can occur in the Sahara Desert due to sudden atmospheric changes. These rare phenomena create striking images over ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world’s largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BCE. Members of our species Homo ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable ... but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different place: a verdant world of trees and rivers and home to megafauna such as hippos and ...

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look ... Though meteorites fall with the same frequency around the world, scientists say, they are especially easy to spot in places ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

For this reason, it is assumed that there must be many more similar mummies buried in the Sahara waiting to be discovered.