Africa’s Namib Desert is a harsh and unforgiving place, home to shifting, barren sand dunes, jagged mountains, and gravel plains. The vast desert — whose name means “place of no people” in ...

Research has revealed unusual structures in the Namib Desert that are likely the result of activity by an unknown microbiological life form. Unusual tiny burrows, or small tubes running vertically ...

Geology The mysterious hill in Sudan that looks like 'landlocked lips' ... One of the fairy circles in Farm Dieprivier / Namib Desert Lodge, Namibia, during a dry year.

Among the towering red dunes of Namib-Naukluft National Park in the central Namib Desert is an area known as Sossusvlei. It is a strange and alien landscape.

Filming Lions in the Namib Desert. Clip: Season 43 Episode 4 | 10m 38s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Award-winning wildlife filmmakers tell the behind-the-scenes story of “Lions of the ...

For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert's "fairy circles," circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the arid ...

What is also fascinating about the desert are the micro-sounds that you can hear, including sand grains being blown by the wind, ants scurrying inside an acacia tree, and the slither of a side ...

IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 587, there appeared a notice of the anniversary address for that year to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Munich delivered by Prof. Karl A. Zittel, the well-known ...

Topography and Geology of the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Central Portion). By T. Barron W. F. Hume Geological Survey Report. Pp. viii + 331. (Cairo: National Printing Department, 1902.) ...

It has now been confirmed, that termites are the cause of the mysterious bald circles in grasslands on the eastern edge of the Namib Desert. This is the result of a publication by researchers from ...