Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert on planet-crossing over 12 African countries with 3.6 million square miles. Its size is compared to the entire United ...

A research team was able to locate human populations in an African desert believed to have disappeared more than 50 years ago. DNA studies helped show the genetic differences between neighboring ...

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...

Willem Jankowitz, his white beard trimmed into a goatee, peers at a small, purple flower through his bifocals. Everybody calls him “Doc.” His colleague, Peter Cunningham, is stretched out under their ...

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...

Bob Behnken @Chief_Astronaut – Our Earth’s color palette is amazing! MT @NASA_Astronauts: “As far as the eye can see #Africa” #AstroButch ...