Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

It was buried under a sand dune approximately 10 feet tall ... came out to be 92 feet long and 26 feet wide. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your ...

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 ...

A family on the Chatham Islands found almost 20 fragments of a historic canoe, or waka, in a sand dune, officials said and photos show. Photo from Manatū Taonga / New Zealand's Ministry for ...