For many years, scientists had had difficulties studying migration in insects because of their size and experts’ inability to track their movement thanks to technological limitations. But a boom in ...

Seven videos exploring the human and physical geography of the continent of Africa.

Every time they validated a centenarian, his team marked a blue dot on a map; places with a high concentration ... raw pig fat. In the Sahara Desert, the team biked against a dust storm, got ...

According to the African Wildlife Foundation, cheetahs can be found in dry forests, grasslands, open plains, and desert regions. Wild cheetah distribution map. Image via Angelfire ... However, a tiny ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... it originated from an ancestral North African population. This source, newly documented at ...

Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... previous assumptions about North African population history and highlights the existence of a deeply ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...