Meanwhile, cacti flowers, fruits and water-filled tissues provide food and hydration to desert animals. Some woodpeckers ...

My work gathers inspiration from a variety of unconventional model organisms, and they have a key role in bio-inspired design ...

But what many of these regions lack in traditional water sources, they make up for in fog, like the Namib Desert. It's one of the oldest and driest places in the world. Depending on how far you ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

Their color provides perfect camouflage among the powdery reddish sands of the Namib Desert, their primary habitat. These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop ...

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools of which little is known because getting to them is so ...

Pia has traveled to the Namib Desert. Far away from civilization, she visits the Gobabeb Desert Research Station and learns amazing things about the miraculous creatures of the Namib Desert. First, ...

Gondwana Namib Park lies at the heart of the world's oldest desert, the Namib Desert. It spans a sprawling 127 km2, seamlessly connecting with the Namib Naukluft Park and neighbouring guest farms.

Taking place at Dune 7, the tallest dune in the world and a Unesco World Heritage site, the inaugural Namib Desert International Jazz Festival is set to take place 18 and 19 March 2025.

Bmanzurova / Getty Images There's some confusion around how often to water a Christmas cactus because of its name. Though it sounds like it might be a desert-dweller, it's actually native to humid ...

The children’s trail features a farm, petting zoo, and a playground with a saguaro cactus-shaped slide ... It features plants ...