As long ago as the 1940s, the mysterious moving rocks of Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa have stumped scientists. How stones as heavy as 35 pounds (16kg) can bulldoze their way across ...

Richard Norris looks over a few of the moving rocks that have left trails on Racetrack playa in Death Valley National Park. Norris, a paleobiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and his ...

The 700-pound stones slide across Death Valley unassisted. — -- The mystery of the sailing stones has been solved. For years, enormous stones have been moving across the Racetrack Playa of ...

Death Valley’s famous moving stones, ... there are rocks that we know have been moving—even though no one has ever seen them do it. ... and some time-lapse cameras in 2011.

Racetrack Playa is a dry, flat lakebed in California that is littered with hundreds of mysterious, moving rocks. Also known as the "sailing stones," these rocks leave tracks stretching up to 1,500 ...

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 ...

Alan Van Valkenburg, a park ranger working at Death Valley, told theSmithsonian, "It was very quiet out there, and it was very open, and you tended to have the playa to yourself.And the longer you ...

A solution to the longstanding mystery of why rocks move erratically across an isolated patch of California's Death Valley finally emerged on Thursday, when researchers published a study showing ...

Death Valley. The very name repels. So do the superlatives: the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere (282 ft. below sea level), one of the hottest places on earth (record high: 134°F) and one ...

In Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park, meteorological conditions can push rocks weighing up to 700 pounds along the flat ground. When you purchase through links on our ...