It is the primary habitat of a species of fox that uses its disproportionately large ears to dissipate heat, the fennec.
Long tracking shots of this desert are coupled with audio of  lm scholar Lotte Eisner reading from the Popol Vuh in Werner Herzog's early documentary Fata Morgana. It is now thought that an eroded dome, and not a meteorite impact, caused the 30 mile diameter-wide Richat structure which is sometimes termed the "Eye" of this desert. Ancient depictions of humans in the Roundhead style were succeeded by the pastoral "Bovidian," according to the chronology revealed by the rock art at this desert's site of Tassili. It is the primary habitat of a species of fox that uses its disproportionately large ears to dissipate heat, the fennec. A city on the southern edge of this desert became a center of 16th century Islamic learning due to the establishment of a famous school at its Sankore Mosque. For 10 points, name this site of Timbuktu, the largest desert in the world.
Long tracking shots of this desert are coupled with audio of  lm scholar Lotte Eisner reading from the Popol Vuh in Werner Herzog's early documentary Fata Morgana.
Sahara desert