In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

Quicksand has been a favorite trope in Hollywood movies for years. Many think of quicksand as being able to engulf humans whole in a matter of a seconds, but does it work that way? Quicksand is formed ...

“65,” in theaters now, stars Adam Driver as a spaceman who crash lands on a hostile alien world. Except that, while Driver might be a futuristic traveler, he is actually living 65 million years in the ...

Quicksand isn’t just a movie myth - it’s a real engineering hazard. This video explains how the “quick condition” weakens ...

Movies have to make things interesting for us, so of course they’re going to show their characters surviving the scariest dangers they can imagine. Sometimes these are obviously not real-word perils ...

A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn’t just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water’s edge at Popham Beach ...