In the paper, the authors describe how they made this discovery after analyzing 500 grass plants across four areas of the ...

This extraordinary plant from the Namib Desert can live for an average of 600 years, with some ancient specimens estimated to be over 2,000 years old.

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 ...

After over 40 days waiting for their brood to hatch, an ostrich family leave their nest in the searingly hot Namib desert ... grassland by spreading seeds of plants that increase fertility ...

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 ...