Fascinating dinosaur bones

The Sahara wasn't a desert back then, though, it was tropical, and dinosaurs lived and thrived there. But for some reason, it's rare to find dinosaur bones there at all, let alone nearly intact whole skeletons. That's why it was so surprising to find an almost-complete skeleton of a plant-eating dinosaur called Mansourasaurus shahinae in the desert of modern Egypt.

Amusing creatures in the Sahara

According to reports, in October 2017, researchers captured rare footage of wild sand cat kittens in Morocco's part of the Sahara. Sand cats are apparently regular cats but with huge eyes and huge ears. These creatures are hardly ever observed in the wild, and when they are no one ever films them because they can't stop gawking long enough to actually get their cameras out.

When the Sahara became a pot of gold

Someone accidentally discovered gold in Niger's part of the Sahara and thousands of people rushed to the scene in the hope they would find gold, too. According to reports, one version says the discoverer was a goat herder who found an odd-looking rock and asked his friend to help him identify it. Evidently his friend told him that he'd found a gold nugget, which was later valued at $1,400, which is roughly three times what most people in Niger earn in a year.

to be continued...