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Stunning footage captures tiny bird's fight for survival in massive Saharan sandstormFirst of its kind footage captured for National Geographic's "Incredible Animal Journeys" shows a barn swallow caught in a sandstorm as part of its migration through the Sahara Desert.
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'The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape we see today"A very remarkable series of events took place during the late Miocene between 5.96 and 5.33 million years ago."
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World's 1st 'boomerang meteorite' — a rock that left Earth, spent millennia in space, then returned — possibly discovered in the Sahara DesertThe composition of an unusual meteorite suggests that it formed on Earth, spent thousands of years in space, then reentered the atmosphere. But some experts disagree.
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Massive bulldog-faced dinosaur was like a T. rex on steroidsA hefty abelisaurid is the fourth large, predatory dinosaur discovered in Egypt's Bahariya Formation, alongside other sizable Cretaceous carnivores.
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Alien stone in Egyptian desert came from rare supernova, scientists sayThe rock likely formed from the merging of dust with the remnants of the two stars involved in the explosion.
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The Sahara: Earth's largest hot desertReference The Sahara desert is the largest hot desert in the world, covering nearly all of northern Africa.
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Ice covers the Sahara Desert for just 4th time in 50 yearsThe dunes of the northwestern Sahara desert were streaked with ice on Tuesday, creating a surreal landscape
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Satellite sees 'Godzilla' dust plume sweep across the Atlantic OceanEach year, dust from the Sahara Desert blows off Africa and across the Atlantic, but most years that plume isn't so massive it's nicknamed "Godzilla."
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Dust plume bigger than Texas crashes into the USAir quality could reach dangerous levels across a wide chunk of the continental U.S. and Caribbean this weekend as a rare, giant Saharan dust storm reaches the U.S.
