Livestock herders in the Horn of Africa and North Africa have switched to camels over the years because of their famed resilience Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these ...

When we picture the Sahara Desert, we imagine the ultimate wasteland: a vast, scorching ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

In early 1941, British forces believed the North African campaign was won. Then Erwin Rommel landed in Tripoli. Within weeks, ...

A team of researchers with the University of Johannesburg's Palaeo-Research Institute has found multiple instances of desert kites in a part of South Africa. In their paper published in the journal ...

Lining the Cape of South Africa and its southern coast are long chains of caves that nearly 200,000 years ago were surrounded by a lush landscape and plentiful food. During a glacial phase that lasted ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert on planet-crossing over 12 African countries with 3.6 million square miles. Its size is compared to the entire United ...

A ship, the Bom Jesus, disappeared 500 years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold aboard.

Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...