Its horned appearance helps it blend into the desert sand. The Desert Monitor lizard is large and aggressive. Although not venomous, its sharp claws and teeth can cause significant injury.

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

There's plenty of air in the tiny spaces between grains of sand; the problem for sand-burrowing animals is how to get that air into their lungs while keeping the sand out ...

Bechir Belhad sits on Saharan sand dunes ... tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded. Durant et al. (2013). Animals like the ...

They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.