For comparison, the coastline of the USA’s Washington state measures 400 kilometres (250 miles). The cave is 118 metres (379 ...
And as David Attenborough narrates in footage from the BBC TV series Planet Earth filmed in Mauritania, “swarms join up with ...
Even elite human sprinters take around five to seven seconds to reach their maximum running speed. Crocs, on the other hand, ...
The Bermuda Triangle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, has become infamous for the planes and ships that are said to have ...
Researchers have documented “an entire community” of animals travelling with whale sharks – the world’s biggest fish.
The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...
Curious victims are sucked up by the current created when the predator opens its enormous mouth, which can accommodate prey ...
The aptly named Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried around 300 metres underground and contains giant gypsum crystals up to 11 metres long. Some are big enough to walk on and are so ...
From dolphins to elephants, some animals show remarkable awareness of death. Discover7 species that appear to turn the death of family ...
From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...
Why would vestigial arms need such biceps’? Some palaeontologists now find themselves drawn back to the theory that the limbs were involved in reproduction, perhaps as subtle signalling devices to ...
North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...