Within Africa’s second-youngest country lies the world’s oldest desert, with more than 55 million years of history buried in its shifting sands. The vast Namib Desert extends for 1,200 miles along the Atlantic coast—from Angola southward across Namibia—to the Olifants River in South Africa. ‘Namib’ derives from the Nama language, […]
Day: April 8, 2025
Lives of Yellowstone: From Large to Small; Ancient to New
Yellowstone is the only place in the Lower 48 to have a continuously free-ranging bison population since prehistoric times. Now, preserved dung suggests that over the last 2,300 years, elk were the other primary, large herbivore species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem watershed. Large herbivores—such as bison and elk—have continuously […]