Snowy Sahara. Mid-January saw snowfall in the Sahara Desert in northwestern Algeria as overnight temperatures plummeted to below freezing, leaving these sand dunes near the town of Aïn Séfra ...

In the heart of the Sahara Desert, where endless dunes meet rocky plateaus, an unexpected refuge exists: the Guelta of Matmata in Mauritania. This remote oasis is home to one of the last groups of ...

the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded. Durant et al. (2013). Animals like the Addax antelope, the Dama ...

Weighing in at around 1kg, the fennec fox is the smallest of all the foxes. As a resident across the Sahara desert and other parts of North Africa the fennec’s long hairs may seem a bit out of ...

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 ...