A typical fairy circle on the Kamberg, which the researchers investigated during the 2024 rainy season: The clumps of grass – up to 80 cm high – can be seen at the edge of the fairy circle.

Doctor Who brought us some Welsh lore through the use of fairy circles. Fairy circles are found all over the UK and are deeply rooted into the culture across the country. This episode of Doctor ...

Drone image of the fairy circles and a lonesome tree in the Giribes Plains. Hundreds of thousands of fairy circles occur in the Giribes without any Euphorbia damarana in the vicinity. These ...

Parts of the Namib desert are covered in “fairy circles,” patches of empty earth surrounded by plants. There are many myths about the origins of these strange patches: Some believe they are the ...

Circular patches of bare ground, surrounded by plants and known as 'fairy circles' are natural formations that have puzzled experts for years. Until recently they had only been seen in Namibia and ...

Have you ever spotted a strange ring of grass in your yard? Maybe it's dead or unusually lush? Well, there's an interesting reason behind this!

Carnivorous ants, poisonous plants, meteor showers, and underground gas vents have all been considered as possible culprits of "fairy circles" — bare patches of soil bordered by a ring of taller ...

THE dark green circles of grass known as “fairy rings” formed the subject of a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the new-born Royal Society in 1675; but it was only last year that the ...

The sand termite Psammotermes allocerus could be responsible for mysterious circles of grass in southern Africa. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal ...