Animals can adapt to any environment – even a sandy, arid landscape like the Sahara Desert. The vast stretches of sand dunes, rare oases, and rugged mountains are home to fennec foxes, scorpions, and, ...
the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded. Durant et al. (2013). Animals like the Addax antelope, the Dama ...
Weighing in at around 1kg, the fennec fox is the smallest of all the foxes. As a resident across the Sahara desert and other parts of North Africa the fennec’s long hairs may seem a bit out of ...
Tardigrades, also known as "water bears," can survive severe temperatures, by entering a state of cryptobiosis. The fennec fox is native to the Sahara Desert and has enormous ears that radiate heat, ...