Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable ... but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different place: a verdant world of trees and rivers and home to megafauna such as hippos and ...