The Sahara Desert is renowned for its barren, arid landscapes, with some areas receiving just a few inches of rain every year. However, you may be surprised to hear that it is not the driest ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes us to prehistory. They are time travelers who use four-wheel-drive vehicles to navigate the Sahara ...

Before now, the lake bed had been dry as a ... more extreme rainfall events can be expected in the Sahara Desert in the ...

Many migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of a better life in Europe Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger ...

Fennec Foxes are the quintessential desert creature ... We setup camp and settled down for our first night in the Sahara, before the strangest thing happened – it rained! It’s not rained ...