April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

Picture the Sahara ... 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 elephants. Over the past decades ...

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

The Sahara’s sand dunes don’t just roll languidly on the horizon; they rise like giants on the desert stage. Some of these dunes reach impressive heights of over 180 meters (590 feet ...

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look for ... Bagouma, left, has Lamine Henoun, center, look over some rocks displayed on a napkin that he found while out herding his camels ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... Shared genetic drift (random changes in genetic make-up over time) in the individuals in Morocco ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...

The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

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