As the Saharan sun rose on my waylaid team, one morning in September 2022, it seemed to burn with particular intensity. For nearly three weeks we’d been holed up in a mud-walled compound in the oasis ...
Above, Dylan Potter, 9, left, and Seamus Ward, 8, use chisels to look for fossils hidden inside rocks. Above right, Jonathan Hoag, 16, shows a trilobite he found at the site. Children dig for fossils ...