In 1874, Captain Francois-Elie Roudaire, a geographer in the French army proposed a daring idea. No doubt inspired by the successful completion of the Suez canal a few years earlier, he suggested the ...

(CNN)-- It sounds like the twist in a sci-fi movie or an abandoned plotline on "Lost," but new research reveals some of the largest (and probably scariest*) sea creatures lived in what is now the ...

Some of the biggest catfish and sea snakes to ever exist lived in what is today the Sahara desert, according to a new paper that contains the first reconstructions of extinct aquatic species from the ...

The Sahara might seem like one of Earth’s most lifeless regions today, but its fossils show it was once a vast seaway filled with giant fish and some of the largest sea snakes the planet has ever seen ...

There are two types of pest on Tenerife... those with six legs, called cockroaches, and those with two, called time-share reps. Thus I was introduced to my holiday destination by our travel company ...