The 700-pound stones slide across Death ... On Dec. 20, 2013, they witnessed 60 rocks move across the land. The movement of the sliding rocks in Death Valley has been attributed to high winds ...

For nearly a century Death ... Valley’s dancing rocks have amazed visitors and stumped scientists. Despite etching trails longer than football fields into the dried mud, no one had ever seen the ...

Start at the Furnace Creek visitor center in Death Valley National ... "sailing stones," you’re torn between a pair of certainties that are simply not compatible: (1) these rocks appear to ...

DEATH VALLEY ... rocks move about 15 feet per minute, according to the report. Richard Norris, 55, a paleobiologist at Scripps, and James, 59, a research engineer, launched their “Slithering ...

The rocks in question occupy a spot called Racetrack Playa in Death Valley. Playas are desert mudflats that sometimes host shallow lakes when enough water is around. Racetrack Playa gets its name ...

Amid the eerie silence and the 50C heat of California's Death Valley these giant boulders appear to move smoothly - and unaided - across the desert. The rocks, some as heavy as 17 stone ...

Ending a half-century of geological speculation, scientists have finally seen the process that causes rocks to move atop Racetrack Playa, a desert lake bed in the mountains above Death Valley ...

leaving a trail in the mud as the rocks moved. Nonetheless, some visitors to Death Valley seem to prefer more occult explanations for the sailing stones. Marc Lallanilla has been a science writer ...

So-called sailing stones in California’s Death Valley National Park have perplexed ... have long been considered as possible explanations for why the rocks, sometimes weighing hundreds of ...

For the first time, humans have observed the movement of the mysterious sailing stones of ... hundreds of rocks," Richard Norris said, "So we have seen that even in Death Valley, famous for ...