Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math. At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, ...

When a four-part crop circle pattern roughly resembling a Mickey Mouse head appeared last week in a wheat field in eastern Washington state, farmers Greg and Cindy Geib were surprised — but not ...

(CNN) — Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The phenomenon’s mysterious origins have intrigued scientists for ...

Their intricate designs and the shear impressive size of them takes meticulous planning and precision execution. And the resulting crop circle, while illegal and irritating to the farmer whose field ...

They look a little like crop circles and a little like artistic earthworks. Around the world, they have many names: in the Namib Desert of Africa, they’re called “fairy circles;” in Brazil they’re ...

Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of Namibia in southwestern Africa, people are captivated by the regular patterns of plant growth that blanket desert and ...

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