We take you through some of the continent’s prized animals and landscapes ... many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern Africa was created more than 55 million ...

By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

Camels rarely sweat, even in desert temperatures that reach ... Today, nearly all of the world's camels are domestic animals. They are found in northern Africa and southwestern Asia, and have ...

plants and animals adapt to the challenges of their own habitat. These distant fox cousins range from the far frozen north of the arctic to the scorching heat of the African desert, and everywhere ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...