Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...