(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.

Another species, the Sahara Desert ant, meanders around the barren desert, searching for food. It appears that an ant of this species can remember how far it walked, or how many steps it took ...

Desert ants have long been known to have excellent navigational skills: they live in the featureless salt pans of the North African Sahara or in pine forests in Greece where there are few ...

They found that removing the mounds increased the chances of ants failing to find their way home by between 250 and 400 per cent. In nearly all cases, the foragers’ nest mates quickly began ...

Stunning views show the snow-covered dunes on the edge of the Sahara Desert — an area known to be one of the hottest places on Earth. The Saharan silver ant can keep cool in the blistering heat ...

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