On the eastern edge of the Sahara Desert, researchers found a mysterious stone circle. It’s kind of like Africa’s version of ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio packed even more of a punch than we expected, and now thousands of more people are headed to the California desert for Weekend 2.

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham ... of deserts that separate most of Africa from Eurasia—including the Sahara and deserts farther east—were verdant ...

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

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look for ... He said some of his best samples have come from North Africa, including Mauritania. He suspects there are similar treasures ...

The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change based on its position relative to the sun. This relationship means that ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

The fascinating North African beings are thought to have roamed the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago. Their genetic makeup was shockingly different to what scientists usually expect to find ...

These individuals show no signs of sub-Saharan African ancestry, challenging the idea ... As the climate shifted and the region became arid, the Sahara transformed into the vast desert we see today.