When temperatures are scorching, southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa dilate blood vessels in their beaks to thermoregulate and cool off, according to a study ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria.

The discovery of extremely old stone-age tools and crystals at a rock shelter in the southern Kalahari Desert may change scientists’ understanding of early human culture in Africa. The ...

Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago. Griffith University archaeologist Dr. Jayne Wilkins said the general assumption ...

There is an upward limit to how hot daily air temperatures can get before birds can no longer successfully breed, indicating that rapidly advancing climate change will have widespread and destructive ...

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Tsodilo Hills is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape for its dense rock art and archaeological record of human settlement extending back many tens of thousands of years.

Geography and ecology are key factors that have influenced the genetic makeup of human groups in southern Africa, according to new research. By investigating the ancestries of twenty-two KhoeSan ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world’s atmosphere, scientists heard today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General ...

A small oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Vancouver is drilling into what it believes could be a massive onshore oil deposit under and alongside an ecologically and culturally important ...