About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

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

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...

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

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

African Parks launched a 10-year plan to rescue and rewild 2 000 captive-bred southern white rhinos and renew the habitats ...

With fewer than 7,000 left in the wild, the African Wild Dog is a highly social and efficient predator whose survival is ...

It is easy to spot southern white rhinos, big herds of buffaloes grazing in the open grasslands, elands, shaggy waterbucks, ...

How can we use the past to better navigate our future? What hidden indicators lie beneath the surface of lakes across the globe? And how can understanding these mysteries help society make smarter ...

To try to prevent a new civil war, the U.N. special envoy said the peacekeeping mission is engaging in intense shuttle diplomacy with international and regional partners, including the African Union.