As dawn breaks over mist-draped mountains in southern Oman, camel bells echo softly through the emerald valleys. Herders gather in small ...

Join these caravanners on a scenic journey across the desert from snapshots taken by entrants to the Smithsonian magazine ...

The Edinburgh Zoo has welcomed a new pair of Bactrian camels, named Quill and Quaver. The Royal Zoological Society of ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...

“Greatest sunset ever,” Turek said when the light had finally died. The rain, which had been stalking us on the savanna, was ...

Political discourse in the United States today has become so degraded it’s equivalent to domestic abuse. A leading example of ...

From bears to tardigrades, discover which animals can endure months without eating and how they pull off this incredible feat ...

"I'm so now intertwined into the Knicks' organization, sometimes you see the Timberwolves come up and it doesn't — I feel ...

Nomads who created these monumental images had apparently found a way to survive the arid conditions of the desert, and they ...