From above, it looks like the fur of a big cat. Vegetation and barren land array to form tiger stripes and leopard spots in the dry landscape surrounding Niamey, Niger. These types of patterns are ...

What's going on in the Gobi Desert? Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with the latest set of images to be ripped from Google Maps. This time around, they show a series of giant structures in ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

Newfound Google Maps images have revealed an array of mysterious structures and patterns etched into the surface of China's Gobi Desert. The media -- from mainstream to fringe -- has wildly speculated ...

Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...

Snow covered the sands of Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, for only the fifth time in 42 years. The sands of the large desert were blanketed in snow Monday after the weather fell ...

Across the dry deserts of southern Peru lies a landscape that seems at first completely ordinary. The ground is flat, pale and silent, stretching so far that the horizon looks blurred in the heat. For ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...