Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of Namibia in southwestern Africa, people are captivated by the regular patterns of plant growth that blanket desert and ...

If you have walked on a dune surface after windy conditions have settled, you may have been privileged to recognise one of Nature's wonders: scratch circles. These are structures formed when the end ...

Travelling in Namibia several years ago, I climbed an enormous dune. Stepped across a deep canyon that was only a few inches wide on the surface. Camped in Etosha National Park and saw lions, giraffes ...

Himba bushmen in the Namibian grasslands have long passed down legends about the region’s mysterious fairy circles: bare, reddish-hued circular patches that are also found in northwestern Australia.

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest ...

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Series of distinct processes The artist said making a sand circle from start to finish is made up of a series of distinct processes. “It’s a really strange activity because there are three particular ...

One of the nine mysterious circles on Willard Beach, with no human footprints nearby, only the pawprints of Mona, Raath's labrador-cross as she walked by. Photo: Trevor Raath An artistic phenomenon as ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

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Inspired by the crop circles appearing across Britain during the Noughties, these sand circles designed and created by Welsh artist Marc Treanor are causing a huge stir on social media. Having ...