She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago ...

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An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren regions on Earth, extending across much of North Africa. It spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area roughly the size of China or the ...

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

Ancient human remains were found ... The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape we see today —28,000-year ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... The authors sequenced ancient DNA from two naturally mummified female individuals buried at ...

Our planet holds corners so strange, so breathtakingly unlikely, they feel like fragments of a dream. These UNESCO World ...

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Limited gene flow: The genomes do not carry sub-Saharan African ancestry, suggesting that, contrary to previous interpretations, the Green Sahara ... desert. Due to the extreme aridity of the region ...