It's incredibly rare but there are a handful of beaches on Planet Earth where star-shaped sand can be found. Sand on three islands south of Japan, on Iriomote, Hatoma, and Taketomi, all have the ...

A star-shaped cookie cutter placed on pink sand, creating a perfect imprint and adding a sense of calm and symmetry.

Japan’s lushest, warmest, most tropical region, Okinawa’s Yaeyama Islands are home to an unusual beach phenomenon: star sand. Closer to Taiwan than it is to the bigger islands of Japan ...

Star sand is a type of protozoa (Note 1) called foraminifera that develops a star-shaped calcareous shell. When it dies, the shell becomes sand. Two-thirds of the land of Tuvalu is actually made up of ...