Termites might be behind mystery of desert 'fairy circles'
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 17:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Tanya LewisLiveScience The "artists" behind bizarre, barren, grassless rings dotting the desert of Southwest Africa have been found lurking right at scientists' feet: termites.Known as fairy circles, these patches crop up in regular patterns along a narrow strip of the Namib Desert between mid-Angola and northwestern South Africa, and can persist for decades. The cause of these desert pockmarks...