Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...

Snow covered the sands of Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, for only the fifth time in 42 years. The sands of the large desert were blanketed in snow Monday after the weather fell ...

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EL GOUNA, Egypt, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The strange spiral pattern of mounds and impressions looks like the crop circles of Europe, but reinterpreted for the desert landscape. And for the more ...

Across the dry deserts of southern Peru lies a landscape that seems at first completely ordinary. The ground is flat, pale and silent, stretching so far that the horizon looks blurred in the heat. For ...

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, ...

Has someone found the answer to the mystery of the curious Google Earth images of the Gobi Desert? That's what Fox News implied when it ran this headline on its website Thursday last week in the US: ...