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Addax Antelope is one of the most beautiful animals in the world. They are flat-footed antelopes that can easily traverse the sandy landscape of the Sahara. The Addax Antelope is classified as critically endangered with an estimated 500 of them left in the wilderness. Reasons for this include heavy poaching for their meat and leather, along with destruction of their habitats and global warming. They are rather slow because of their size and their flat hooves, making it all the more difficult for them to run from predators. This also makes them a particularly easy target for poachers with jeeps and guns.

Monitor lizardThe monitor lizard is a venomous reptile, with its venom rivaling that of highly venomous snakes. The monitor is cold-blooded, which means the surrounding temperature has a direct impact on what they do. They thrive in the warmth and practically shut down in the cold. Due to this, they have a rather developed fight or flee mechanism, which makes them very aggressive in colder weather. The same goes for captivity, they don't like it and will show you that they don't. Their diet mostly includes smaller animals like rats or any other mammals or insects they can find.

Horned vipersSand Vipers can grow up to 50 cm in length. They venture out only during the night and usually bury themselves in the sand during the day. The horned viper is venomous and hemotoxic. That means its venom will cause tissue damage along with destroying red blood cells. The bite itself may not be fatal, but is definitely very painful. Prolonged exposure to high levels of hemotoxins will lead to a fatality. The horned viper is now an endangered species, due to a constantly degrading environment.

PLANTS OF SHARAEragrostisAmong the Sahara desert plants, the eragrostis is a kind of grass that is prevalent in the region. This grass spreads rapidly, and is used by the inhabitants of the desert. Eragrostis is also popularly known as love grass.

MagariaMagaria fruits are of a muted brown color and roughly resemble cherries. Flour extracted from dried magaria fruits are typically used by the people of the Sahara desert to make cakes. The branches of the trees are used for building fences around fields, for protection against animals.

Olive TreesVery few people are aware of the fact that olive trees are also found in areas bordering the Nile River. It was in Africa where the olive trees were first cultivated and later their cultivation spread to other countries. Olive trees are an important plant in the Sahara desert's ecosystem. These trees also serve as a lucrative business for the natives.

Common FigA deciduous tree that reaches a height of up to 6 m is also included in the list of the plants that survive in the Sahara Desert. Although it is surprising to evident the growth of this moist, edible fruit bearing tree in the desert, it is true that figs have been a staple of the people's diet.

Doum PalmThis native plant of the Nile River Valley is also known as gingerbread palm, gingerbread tree, doum palm and Egyptian palm. It is used in tea or made into molasses, cakes and sweetmeats. This palm tree does not produce branches and its seeds can be found in many Egyptian tombs. It was a sacred tree for the ancient Egyptians.

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The Sahara Desert was a green and wet area until a few 1000 years ago. There are rock art and petro glyphs showing animals and water scenes. Physical evidence of human occupation in a much wetter climate in the area that is now the Sahara Desert has also been found.What event

can cause such a massive area as the Sahara Desert to suddenly become a desert?The sand and physical features in the area suggests an Electric Universe event/catastrophe occurred to change the land forever. It may also have changed the energy (morphic field) of the land so that it could not produce water. The continent of Africa and North Africa does have massive "impact craters" that are EU formations, either EDM or a discharge event. A new or fresh crater, the Kamil Crater, has been found in the desert of Egypt. It is said to be new or fresh as it is in very pristine condition and not been covered up.

The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent it is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north, the Sahara Desert's northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea, while in the south it ends at the Sahel, an area where the desert landscape transforms into a semi-arid tro pical savanna.