A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in Niger, including this long-necked herbivore ...

A six-metre croc with three sets of fangs is among the five ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert, scientists said Thursday. Three of the fossils, discovered by ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.

Large scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara could power the planet and turn the desert green. (Luca Galuzzi; Creative Commons Share Alike 2.5 ) ...

An enigmatic bipedal creature called Nyasasaurus from Tanzania, known from fragmentary fossils perhaps dating to 240–245 million years ago, represents what the earliest dinosaurs may have looked ...

New Discoveries That Challenge Established Views Recent fossil discoveries are fueling the debate about where dinosaurs originated. One such find is Nyasasaurus, a potential dinosauriform species ...