Stinkpots take their name from small glands on the underside of the carapace that can exude a foul-smelling musk in self-defense; captives donât do this often & it is not a hygiene issue (your house wonât stink because you keep one). Other mud & musk turtles & common snappers have this capability.
Updated March 28, 2017. The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3,500,000 square miles (9,000,000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent. It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean.
Desert expansion varied in the 11 years of our analysis from 248,000 km2 (1988) to 1,349,000 km2 (1984), all relative to 1980. The 1984 expansion represents a 15% increase in the size of the Sahara as compared with 1980.ata from polar-orbiting meteorological satellites have been used to determine the extent of the Sahara Desert and to document its inter annual variation from 1980 to 1990. The Sahara Desert ranged from 8,633,000 square kilometers in 1980 to 9,982,000 square kilometers in 1984.