Star dunes are massive sand dunes that owe their name to arms that spread from a central peak. These sand pyramids, which ...

Star dunes are the tallest and most complex type of desert sand formations, reaching hundreds of meters in height. They are named so due to their pyramidal form and radiating arms and are ...

This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America ... Some of these remarkable hills are formations known as star dunes, molded by complex wind patterns into multi-pronged shapes ...

The Tramore Eco Group recently installed lines of chestnut fencing and replanted marram grass in the more sparse areas of the ...

A unique combination of sand and snow transformed a Colorado national park into an otherworldly winter wonderland, a stunning ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Photo shared by Saman Soortiji via Costantini, Delle Donne and Soortiji (2024) Wooden posts sticking out of a sand dune in northern Iran turned out to be a century-old shipwreck. Photos show what ...