Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

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

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

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

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

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

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

While African leopards span the continent, inhabiting a variety of environments like grasslands, rainforests, deserts and ...

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land ...