OK, it’s a nest. Now, about the white stuff on that guy’s rocks. Eons ago, most of Arizona was an ocean and eons ago, that ocean dried up, leaving a lot of salt and other salty minerals behind.

Purple and white, and black sand. Photo credit: Fire Island National Seashore. The dark sand is a mixture of three minerals — quartz, garnet, and magnetite- clearly visible under a microscope. If you ...

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"The small stuff controls the big stuff," says Manu Prakash, bioengineering professor at Stanford University, one of the authors of the study. "On our planet, that's a rule that we should think about.