A brand new lizard species with a hieroglyphic pattern on its back has been discovered among the sand dunes in eastern Iran.

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

They stopped along a remote road to search for sand-dwelling reptiles and amphibians. On a nearby sand dune, researchers found 10 lizards with a unique pattern, the study said.

Herbert was haunted by the specter of unstoppable dunes. In Dune, he imagined a desert that swallowed an entire planet—an ...

Ray Petelin Different wind patterns can cause different types of dune structures. Once that first mound forms, sand piles up on the windward side, or the side that is getting hit with the most wind.

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can ...

Wind can shape these miniature dunes in less than half an hour and blow them away just as quickly. Unlike the processes that form larger dunes that define desert landscapes and shorelines, those that ...

Like sand dunes on Earth, Mars sand dunes are formed from wind processes (also called aeolian processes), which is the primary atmospheric behavior occurring on the Red Planet since its atmospheric ...

Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little more than two years ago. Wooden slats and fences were installed in ...

When Ogden Dunes began hardening the shoreline against Lake Michigan’s attacks, Save the Dunes drew a line in the sand.

Medano Creek at Great Sand Dunes National Park is nearly half of where it should be this time of year, according to the National Park Service.

Scenes from the video for Perry’s song “Lifetimes” are believed to have been filmed in the middle of the protected dunes on S’Espalmador.