Editor’s Note: Cornett is currently in the Great Australian Desert. He shares his Australian desert experiences in this, his last, of a four-part series. For a moment, I thought I was in the Sahara or ...

The ancient camel question is: One hump or two? Arabian camels, also known as dromedaries, have only one hump, but they employ it to great effect. The hump stores up to 80 pounds of fat, which a camel ...

Nubra Valley in Ladakh presents a unique desert landscape where snow-capped peaks meet golden dunes. Here, Bactrian camels, adapted to the cold, offer quirky, bouncy rides. These double-humped ...

As climate change alters the African landscape, making some parts of the continent unsuitable for agriculture, raising camels could supplant crops and other livestock in the hardest hit areas, a study ...

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The rock art dates to between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago, a period when seasonal water bodies "reappeared" in the region.

“The Story of the Weeping Camel” is about a family of nomadic camel herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert who must marshal all their resources to ensure that a young camel doesn’t die after his mother ...

Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources ...

The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds ...