The large quantity of sand needed to build such an impressive dune comes courtesy of the ancient Lake Lahontan, which dried up around 9,000 years ago and left massive piles of sand behind.

Workers on Jan. 29 began driving sand piles to shore up the soft seabed on the north side of Henoko in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, as part of the relocation of a U.S. air base in the prefecture.

What's more, a quick look at those sand piles will help you decode a secret that they kept from scientists for rather a long time. The sandy mounds are worm casts, effectively the poo, of a marine ...

While reading Ayşegül Savaş's third novel, I was reminded of that pile of sand; so plain, seemingly mediocre, yet somehow ...