In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

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 ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara ... the windblown sand, or both. An empty guard tower’s view of endless desert.

This striking phenomenon was caused by a massive dust storm originating from the Sahara Desert. These events are ... winds lift fine particles of sand and dust high into the atmosphere.

It changes color from pink to shades of ... Surfboards propped against a tent in a desert camp await those wishing to climb the Sahara dunes and sand-surf down. (Janet Podolak – For The News ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...