For many years, Earth scientists have theorized that the remains of Lake Mega-Chad (a huge lake that once existed where Lake Chad now sits in central Africa—on the borders of Nigeria ...

NASA shared an eerie image of what was once a lake larger than the Caspian Sea in central Africa. Called Mega Chad, this massive body of water stretched 150,000 square miles across the Sahara and ...

At its peak around 6,000 years ago, Palaeolake Mega-Chad was the largest freshwater lake on Earth, with an area of 360,000 km 2.Now today's Lake Chad is reduced to a fraction of that size, at only ...

Lake Chad is the remnant of a much vaster lake known as Mega-Chad which 22,000 years ago drained a greener Sahara and was three times the size of Lake Victoria, now Africa’s largest lake. It is now ...

Researchers used satellite images to map abandoned shore lines around Palaeolake Mega-Chad, and analysed sediments to calculate the age of these shore lines, producing a lake level history ...

The Holocene ‘Mega Lake Chad’ 6 constitutes the last main lacustrine event in this region before aeolian erosion and the onset of the current desert conditions. Sediments in the Chad Basin are ...