The location is called Guelta d’Archie and it served as a place where people and animals could stop for water thousands of ...

The Sahara Desert, the world’s largest hot desert, is a place of extremes. Its harsh environment may seem uninhabitable, yet ...

It sounds like the twist in a sci-fi movie or an abandoned plotline on “Lost,” but new research reveals some of the largest (and probably scariest*) sea creatures lived in what is now the ...

Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

Much of the Sahara’s vast expanse of sand is so dry and hot that it supports virtually no plant life. But it wasn’t always so. Roughly 10,000 years ago, animals swarmed across the region’s ...

"Fish appeared to have swam across the Sahara during its last wet phase sometime between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago," researcher Nick Drake, a geographer at King's College London, told LiveScience.

Home at last They’re back. Scimitar-horned oryx have been reintroduced to the wild after a two-decade absence and are flourishing in their old stomping grounds. The desert antelopes were once ...

Massive ‘missing link’ dinosaur discovered in Sahara Desert By . Mike Wehner, BGR. ... “Africa remains a giant question mark in terms of land-dwelling animals at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.