The skeleton of a rorqual whale lies in the sand along the shoreline of northern Namibia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia ... an all-too-real collection of whale bones. Those who do venture in ...

All the pieces were in place for what may eventually be designated Namib-Skeleton Coast National Park—a single coastal megapark. Namibia seemed a rare, almost impossibly hopeful story of a young ...

The whale bones were first collected by a group of UCSC students and staff on Pescadero Beach in 1979, and in 1985, the skeleton was reassembled and mounted to steel supports at Long Marine Lab.

Those who remain are Namibia’s last nomads, and they have outlasted most other attempts to populate the desert. This part of the country is known as the Skeleton Coast, a none-too-subtle ...