People or animals caught in quicksand find it very hard to escape 1. Here we show that quicksand acts as a trap because it becomes unstable when it is forced to move — first it liquefies, and then it ...

If you get stuck in quicksand, remember it's impossible to drown in the stuff. Instead, calmly try freeing yourself by gently kicking your legs back and forth. This should loosen the dense sand around ...

Quicksand’s acumen lay in its pedigree. Frontman Walter Schreifels played in New York hardcore bands Youth of Today and Gorilla Biscuits. At the same time, he and his bandmates – guitarist Tom Capone ...

Quicksand is a staple hazard of adventure movies, TV shows and video games. Whenever a minor character needs to be killed off quickly, the hero needs someone to rescue, or danger needs to be ...

Seeing a horse and rider swallowed by quicksand is a moment Eunice Atkins will not forget. "The horse went down, up to its ears … in one hit, it just went 'whump' and disappeared," she said. It is one ...

A new map has revealed where quicksand can be found in the US after a woman walking along a beach in Maine nearly lost her life in a liquified pit. Quicksand can form on beaches, tidal flats, ...

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 News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine.

A hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park became trapped Sunday in something most people have seen only in old movies or TV shows — quicksand. The hiker, who was not injured, was trapped in the substance ...

Quicksand is the latest international thriller to hit Netflix's ranks, and it's actually a story you might have already heard of. It's based on an acclaimed Swedish book of the same name by Malin ...

Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture – ...

Although horror films frequently depict victims disappearing in quicksand, the truth is much tamer. People cannot fully sink into this type of soil, and laboratory simulations now bear out this little ...

The general consensus seems to be that it’s all Tarzan’s fault. The old TV shows that were a staple of summer holiday scheduling in the Seventies and Eighties – be they the episodes from the 1960s ...