You'd never expect to find skeletons of fish in the Sahara desert in Africa. But scientists have found them there. Long ago, the Sahara desert may have been an ocean of water. If that is true, the...
Plants of the desert community
Life in the desert During the day, the desert looks lifeless. Most desert animals hide where they can escape the heat. When the sun goes down, a desert quickly cools. Desert rodents look for...
Plants that like it hot and dry
Desert plants are able to live without much water. A desert seems like a bad place for plants. In most deserts, the sun is burning hot, and there's little water. Yet, many plants do live in...
Hot and cold
A kangaroo rat's world is the burning hot desert. The desert is baked by the sun. The air above the sand is so hot it wiggles! During the day, a kangaroo rat sleeps in a cool, underground hole....
Dust devils and dust storms
A tornado is a whirling wind that comes down from the sky and touches the ground. Dust devils and sand pillars are whirling winds that go from the ground up into the sky. Whenever hot air rises, it...
Dry lands
> an oasis in the Sahara, Algeria The golden, glowing sun glares down on a vast sea of sand. As far as the eye can see, the sand stretches in great yellow-brown ripples. The air is so hot you can...
How the Camel Got His Hump
from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the...