A new study has discovered the possible sites of over 260 new fairy circles spread across three different continents.
, indicating there could be up to 263 fairy circle sites worldwide.However, the study’s information isn’t exactly 100 percent proven just yet.
That’s because the researchers utilized AI to sift through various satellite images of the world, looking for anything resembling the fairy circles found in Australia and the Namib desert. The expanded areas these circles could exist in include Namibia, the western Sahara desert, the Horn of Africa to the East, the island of Madagascar, southwestern Asia, and central Australia.
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