In real life, quicksand is called supersaturated sand and people who fall into it do not sink but rather stay afloat. That allows them to maneuver their way out of the trap, according to Maine ...

Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with water so that its grains no longer cohere. Heavy objects — a cow, a log, my husband — sink readily but can't easily rise. Quicksand ...

This causes an animal trapped in quicksand to sink deeper when it moves trying to escape from the quicksand trap." The authors added that viscosity can reach extremely high levels in such an ...