Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, ... flat salt terrains, and imposing mountains.

The name Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word for desert. The English word desert comes from the Latin desertum, denoting a place that is forsaken, uninhabited or without people.In fact, the ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

The Sahara Desert, which covers over 3.5 million square miles, was once a green oasis. (Image credit: ... The Tibesti Mountains, canyons and sands of the central Sahara Desert.

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

The mystical mountains at the heart of the Sahara on x (opens in a new window) ... “I love this desert,” De Foucauld wrote in a letter to his sister, in 1906.