(NEWSER) – For at least a century, the "slithering stones" of Death Valley — rocks, some of them boulders weighing more than 600 pounds, that move across the desert floor and leave long trails ...

Mario is just a video game, and rocks don’t have legs. Both of these things are true. Yet, like the Mario ghosts that advance only when your back is turned, there are rocks that we know have ...

In the dusky, cracked surface of a dried up lake bed in Death Valley, California, the stones move across the desert all by themselves. On the barren Racetrack Player, the rocks, some as big as 700 ...

But now, Lorenz and a few other researchers have used time-lapse cameras and GPS sensors attached to the rocks to directly observe the stones moving for the first time — and in a paper published ...

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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 ...

During summer, the cracked floor looks prehistoric under the desert sun ... and yet (2) rocks don’t just move themselves. “It’s very quiet out there, and it’s very open, and you tend ...

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 ...