The Latest Breaking News from the Sahara Desert

Did you know that otters have little skin pockets where they can store their favorite rocks? Or that it snows in the Sahara desert? The post “Walmart Is The World’s Largest Retailer Of Diamonds”: 50 Facts That Are Useless But Interesting first appeared on Bored Panda.

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these dunes can move over time.

Nigerien desert rocker Mdou Moctar performed at the Sultans' Palace in the historic centre of Agadez

The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat structure, stands out like an oversized ammonite among the sand dunes of the Sahara desert in Mauritania.

A cloud of sand from the Sahara Desert will cover the whole of France this weekend – an orange spectacle visible to the naked eye that may cause some health problems.

The eight-year-old walked through the Sahara Desert and endured some time in prison before finally crossing the Mediterranean Sea in a dinghy.

The Sahel, a region 3,860km wide located south of the Sahara Desert and stretching east-west across the African continent, has been a focus of attention around the world recently.

The rocks were found in May 2020 in the Erg Chech sand sea, in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited there, some as much as 11,000 years old according to scientific dating techniques, representing a unique ethnological and climatological record of the…