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 ...

Sand martin chicks born at a newly installed habitat have been spotted for the first time. The chicks arrived at WWT Washington Wetland Centre in March, just eight months after the artificial ...

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 ...

Ornamented in buff and pale feathers, the western snowy plover often goes unnoticed amongst the sand dunes it inhabits ... activity often scares plovers away from their nests, leaving chicks and eggs ...

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 ...