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

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way.

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the ...

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

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

However, the second photo reveals an explosion of greenery as plant ... "The southern Sahara Desert is incredibly green this year due to a northward shift of the monsoon across Africa," extreme ...

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world ... may go many years without a single drop of rain. Only plants and animals that have specially adapted can survive ...

The humans lived during the "African Humid Period," when the Sahara desert was green and dotted with lakes and streams. Humans lived in the area, and pastoralism — or flock tending — was ...