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Even for a desert, the Nefud is nearly bone-dry. Only about an inch of water falls onto the red, sandy soil in northern Saudi Arabia over the course of a year.
But 85,000 years ago, hippos roamed the Nefud.
At that time, heavy, monsoonal downpours...
