image: This is a shot out of the open door of a plane showing fully developed "adult" fairy circles and with a few newly established "babies" developing in the interspace between the old ones. Aerial view of Namibrand, Namibia. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 29, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Norbert Juergens at University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "The Biological Underpinnings of Namib Desert Fairy Circles." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of N. Juergens]