A brand new lizard species with a hieroglyphic pattern on its back has been discovered among the sand dunes in eastern Iran. The discovery, which was detailed in a study in the journal Zootaxa on ...

As the sun beat down on a sand dune in Iran, a patterned creature rested in the shadow of a bush. Nearby scientists spotted the long-tailed animal — and discovered a new species. Researchers ventured ...

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, ...

Scientists have been puzzled for a long time about how a huge star-shaped sand dune in the Sahara Desert formed. This massive dune, called a "star dune," has arms that stretch out in different ...

Dunes, the mounds of sand formed by the wind that vary from ripples on the beach to towering behemoths in the desert, are incarnations of surface processes, climate change, and the surrounding ...

Dunes of sand and other granular materials can be found in large fields on Earth, Mars and beyond. Dune fields tend to self-order into spatial patterns and the physics underlying this ...

The seed banks of active sand dunes are critical for the adaptation of psammophytes to unstable habitats. However, existing reports have failed to effectively elucidate the spatiotemporal structure of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lauren Berger, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Our two-person team loaded the ...