A tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris rugatipennis, it buried itself one moment and then rushed forth again, as if skating along the surface of infinite sand grains.
Scuba dives revealed that the communities of starfish, snails, sea cucumbers and other creatures that live on the sandy ocean bottom offshore have not budged since the plant opened in 2015.
In a real-life sandlot in Kansas, complete with a dog on the other side of the fence, a group of neighborhood kids got the surprise of their lives when an MLB star asked if he could join their wiffle ball game.
We can (and do) build buildings on wet sandy soil since the weight of the grains and the friction between them makes the soil behave as a solid most of the time.
They snap, weaken, and may even be damaged right out of the box, threatening the structural integrity of everything from Star Wars Sandcrawlers to chocolate fountains.