After a sprint, the temperature of the beetle Onymacris plana drops. Efficient running, a body built for cooling and a little bit of lift all help.

Step into the untamed world of the Namib Desert with these extraordinary storytellers, whose cinematic journey spans an unparalleled eight-year desert odyssey. In "Lions of the Skeleton Coast ...

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools of which little is known because getting to them is so difficult. There are few roads and vehicles have limited access in this ...

GPS Telemetry Reveals a Zebra With Anthrax as Putative Cause of Death for Three Cheetahs in the Namib Desert. Frontiers in Veterinary Science , 2021; 8 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.714758 Cite This Page : ...

They treated it like a giant nude beach. Foreign tourists angered Namibian authorities after posing naked atop the legendary "Big Daddy" sand dune in the Namib Desert, as seen in photos ...

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 ...

The landscape for May’s Ski Namibia is a true anamoly, as the Namib Desert stays cool and pleasant due to a wind vacuum that draws cold air from the Antarctic-born ocean current known as the Bunguela ...

The Namib Desert is a vast swathe of land along the Atlantic coast, ... Fresh details of the 2026 Nissan Leaf show big improvements, including a 300-mile range and much-needed redesign.

Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry. Science Advances , 2023; 9 (38) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3822 Cite This Page : ...

For their latest study, Dr. Getzin and his colleagues spent three years examining fairy circles at 10 study sites across 620 miles of desert. One of those years, 2020, was a drought, while 2021 ...

Welwitschia, a two-leafed plant that grows in parts of the Namib Desert in southern Africa, can live for more than 1,000 years. Credit... Tao Wen. By Richard Sima. July 31, 2021.