Have you ever wandered along a beach and marveled at the gorgeous sand sculptures made by local artists? All of that effort, only for them to be destroyed when the tide comes in or the wind picks up.

The more we learn about the animals we share the planet with, the more we realize how fascinating their behavior can be. In 1995, divers off the coast of Japan discovered intricate crop circles ...

Japan’s white-spotted pufferfish are renowned for producing complex, ringed patterns in the sand. Now, 5,500 kilometers away in Australia, scientists have discovered what appear to be dozens more of ...

Shapes that appear out of place have long been present on the seabed off southern Japan. In the 1990s, divers near Amami Oshima Island noticed huge, artificially-looking circular designs carved into ...

In 1995, divers noticed a beautiful, strange circular pattern on the seafloor off Japan, and soon after, more circles were discovered nearby. Some likened these formations to "underwater crop circles.