This looks like a perfectly normal beach, but one step in the wrong direction and you’ll be swallowed by a pit of viscous sand. And I hope you’ve been hitting the gym because pulling your own foot out ...

The setup for a favorite joke finds two fellows stuck in a pit of quicksand — literally up to their noses — still sinking and with no help in sight. “I don’t care what the experts say,” offers one ...

Officials at Maine's most popular state beach posted signs last week that warn visitors the terrain beneath their feet could give way and land them in natural pockets of sticky sediment. The signs at ...

An LAPD officer dived into California tar pits in search for clues to a murder. June 7, 2013— -- An LAPD police officer emerged from the famous La Brea Tar Pits, famous for the extinct animals ...