(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

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 ...

Animals can adapt to any environment – even a sandy, arid landscape like the Sahara Desert. The vast stretches of sand dunes, rare oases, and rugged mountains are home to fennec foxes, scorpions ...

The first group, known as the Kiffian, hunted wild animals and speared huge perch with harpoons. They colonized the region when the Sahara was at its wettest, between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago.

Takarkori shelter, a cave in the Sahara, was inhabited by ancient people who ate fish from long-gone lakes The Sahara desert was once home to several species of fish, including tilapia and catfish ...

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery ...

Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that ...

Addaxes aren’t the only animals to have suffered losses in the Sahara. According to a 2014 study , 86 percent of 14 large animal species, from Saharan cheetahs to African wild dogs, were either ...

The first group, known as the Kiffian, hunted wild animals and speared huge perch with harpoons. They colonised the region when the Sahara was at its wettest, between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago.

How humans created the Sahara desert: Farming transformed the grassy plain into an arid wasteland 8,000 years ago. The Sahara was a luscious grassland dotted with lakes 6,000-16,000 years ago ...

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 ...