But it's what we would consider a fog desert, a place where fog is the main water source for plant and animal life, like the Namib Desert beetle. At first glance, this group of beetles would seem ...

Although large parts of this desert region are protected, it still faces threats from unsustainable land practices, mining and illegal plant harvesting. One unique way of protecting Namibia's ...

Show more In the baked Namib desert, a pair of ostriches raise their ... important grassland – home to thousands of species of plants and animals found nowhere else – and it is in danger ...

In northern Namibia, along the remote and treacherous Skeleton Coast, the dunes of the Namib Desert stretch far inland. A diversity of animals and plants - many of them endemic to the region - live in ...

Welwitschia mirabilis, or Tree Tumbo, is endemic (native) to the Namib Desert. But what is the story of this weird, alien-looking plant? How does it live so long, and what is it doing in the middle of ...