User blog comment:TheReturnOfTheKing/A new world 3/@comment-4844180-20141107231227

Not that I at all know anything about sand lie that or anything similar, but I really like the idea and it is very intriguing, just as a planet it is like this, nevermind life forms.

As an idea I think for the sand to get to this point it would have to be a very in diverse planet in form of elements, or it has many types of sand. I also think it would have had to take a long time to get like this, so maybe you should have it around a first generation red dwarf star, with some material from second generation stars, possibly forming this second star to make a binary system.

As for life-forms, I think that the small cells of whatever would have to be able to live with all of this weird sand properties. They might digest the sand for any kind of nutrients, posibly becoming slimy gelatinous blobs which slide through the under sand, or they could be phytomining plants which skewer deep into the ground for anything they can find.

As for sentient life... well it's still at guesses for why things are sentient... Perhaps the larger blob creatures which could equate to immovable whales of blobs at the bottom of the seas are stationary at the bottom, with other creatures just falling into them. As a method of survival the other creatures higher up in the sea of sand could survive by making replenishing towers out of the stomach of the sand-blob-whales and towards the surface, and in trying to survive they created a complex social order to keep things in check and survive themselves.

Perhaps these towers from the seabed could reach the top layer at the surface and the top ones escaped to find the plants which capture the sand in the wind for nutrients and started to develop there, diverging the species into two, one in the seabed-to-surface towers and another sentient species taking to the land where they developed tribes to cut down the plants and help eachother, becoming more agricultural.

Sorry, I got a thing going there with these ideas...

If you don't use them I will :P But I think this is an interesting idea for a planet and what I described may be one way for the species to develop.