These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop, but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows ...

Roughly 272 million years ago, the creature—named Gaiasia jennyae—inhabited the cool swamps in what is now the Namib desert ... and gave rise to amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals ...

People who live in and near the Namib Desert speak of two winds ... this fog-fed existence, for snakes and lizards, beetles and spiders, but it's an impressively specialized one.

Desert lizards are facing a 'cost-of-living' squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds. For a lizard ...

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, ...

Fog on the Namib Desert is the primary source of water creating a unique environment in which numerous penguins, invertebrates, reptiles, and animals adapt to an ever-changing climate. The huge Messum ...

Meerkats live in dry areas such as the Namib and Kalahari deserts in Africa, and prefer sandy or even stony ground. They avoid forests, mountains, and true deserts, the zoo noted. A true desert ...

Their colour provides perfect camouflage among the powdery reddish sands of the Namib Desert, their primary habitat ... ground but also to bury beneath the dunes of the desert. Strictly nocturnal ...