The Onymacris plana, a darkling beetle, is the first known land animal that gets cooler as it exercises, scientists said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot – the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number ...

Duncan Mitchell has received funding from South African National Research Foundation, South African Medical Research Council, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Australian Research Council. Joh R. Henschel ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...

Step inside the haunting remains of Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town in Namibia, now slowly reclaimed by the ...

In late winter 2025, botanists and field researchers documented an extraordinary bloom of the Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) in Namibia’s Namib Desert. This succulent plant, usually known for its ...

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...

We’re trudging through the Namib Desert. It’s over 100 degrees. The landscape is split between dunes of ochre sand and vibrant blue sky. We’ve come from Namibia’s capital of Windhoek via a travel ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Wildflower seekers typically must wait until February or March to see blankets of color in Borrego Springs but, ...

Rare snowfall blankets Saudi Arabia after 30 years, turning Tabuk’s mountains and deserts into white landscapes/Image: X For the first time in three decades, snow has graced parts of Saudi Arabia, ...

China's active forest expansion has continued at pace amid a long-running push that began half a century ago. Its Three-North Shelterbelt Program started in 1978 and is now also known as the “Green ...