The mixture, which is a combination of sand and water, typically occurs in areas near water — but it can also be found in deserts Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

My dog Schuyler runs like she is part dolphin. She lopes high over snowbanks, disappearing into the snow for a moment, and then shooting right up again, always in the same level bounds. Last year was ...

Records reveal a man died last summer after getting stuck in quicksand on the San Antonio River in South Texas and drowning. The quicksand case is the only one of its kind in at least five years in ...

Jamie Acord said she was walking along a Maine beach with her husband when she suddenly found herself waist-deep in sand What started as a normal day at the beach turned into into a startling ordeal ...

My husband lays shirt, shorts and boots on the rock. Pink as the sandstone around us, he walks toward the pool of water that blocks our way up this narrow canyon in southern Utah. The pool is about ...

A woman became trapped in waist-deep sand at the mouth of Mission Creek in Santa Barbara and was rescued Tuesday morning. Her rescuers also got stuck in the sand, officials said. Santa Barbara City ...

Utah government officials have published a safety notice about quicksand after a hiker became stuck. Earlier this month the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah said in a Facebook post people ...