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🌱🏜️ Most plants die in a few years, but Welwitschia mirabilis can live for two millennia in the world's harshest #desert.

It only ever grows two leaves, which slowly shred into a "nest of noodles" over centuries while it survives by literally breathing in the morning fog.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/flowers/welwitschia-mirabilis?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=news_links&utm_content=welwitschia-mirabilis

#botany #nature #namibdesert #science #biology #evolution #plants

It’s longer than a blue whale, is thousands of years old and drinks fog – meet this weird ‘living fossil’ | Discover Wildlife

This living fossil (having unchanged for more than 200 million years) can survive some of the harshest conditions on Earth

Discover Wildlife

Lu Feb 3

That place

#namibia #africa #desert #namibdesert #travel #tb #memories

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Jan 12

Namib desert #beetles run to stay cool https://theconversation.com/a-namib-desert-beetle-runs-to-stay-cool-how-scientists-solved-the-puzzle-of-this-unique-and-speedy-species-269433

Beetling the heat – the diurnal #Namib Desert #beetle Onymacris plana cools by running: Carole Roberts et al. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/16/jeb250379/368895/Beetling-the-heat-the-diurnal-Namib-Desert-beetle

"it’s the fastest of all the #invertebrates of the #NamibDesert sands. This tiny beetle can run as fast as a human can walk... the beetle in fact gets cooler when it exercises. This is the first land animal to have been found with this capability... some desert #ants may also be able to do it"

African wildlife Jan 11

The Namib Desert, Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

#africa #namibia #SouthAfrica #NamibDesert #wildlife #live #webcam

Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert

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African wildlife Dec 13

The Namib Desert, Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

#africa #namibia #SouthAfrica #NamibDesert #wildlife #live #webcam

Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Nov 24

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime #lions hunting #seals on the #beach
In #Namibia, a group of #desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the #Atlantic coast, to become the world's only #maritimelions.
They have moved from the arid #NamibDesert to the #AtlanticOcean in search of food, drastically changing their diet and behaviour in #2017 to adapt to this new habitat – and appearing to thrive from the change.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-the-photo-showing-namibias-desert-lions-living-on-the-beach

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

BBC

African wildlife Oct 23, 2025

The Namib Desert, Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

#africa #namibia #SouthAfrica #NamibDesert #wildlife #live #webcam