Hyenas are weird desert animals that are capable of living to be over 40 years old and are known for their unusual features and behaviors ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.

People, plants and animals have adapted and learnt to live ... and Ferne explains how Bedouin people have adapted to live in desert conditions. This clip is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes.

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the ...

In northern Namibia, along the remote and treacherous Skeleton Coast, the dunes of the Namib Desert stretch far inland. A diversity of animals and plants - many of them endemic to the region - live in ...

jackrabbits and eagles live in the desert scrub. Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for ...

This huge expanse of land is also home to numerous imperiled species, including the threatened desert tortoise, the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, the cushenberry buckwheat, and many other rare ...