Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

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The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

Paleontologists suspect that the earliest dinosaurs may have lived in regions that are simply too remote to have been ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

Discover The Strange Climate of the Gobi Desert, a unique landscape where scorching summers meet freezing winters. Learn why it's called a cold desert, how it was formed, and how it compares to the ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

Africa's largest country by area, has worked to clamp down on instability and terrorism in the vast Sahara, however the kidnapping comes months after a Swiss tourist traveling in the desert was ...