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

Steve Lake envisions a zoo no more than 25 acres, with animals that could withstand the region’s extreme summer temperatures.

In drought-stricken Namibia, where conservation groups are fighting to preserve endangered species, paying tourists can join ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

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

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of ... isolated despite practicing animal husbandry - a cultural innovation that originated outside Africa," Krause said. Archeological evidence ...

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

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...