Nature
Ball lightning has the manners of a party guest who turns up uninvited, glows in the middle of the room, hisses politely, terrifies everyone…
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The deep sea rarely asks for attention. It sits there in quiet darkness, minding its business, while we surface dwellers panic about weather apps…
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The British badger, or Meles meles if you want to sound like you’re on first-name terms with a zoologist, is a creature that looks…
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Nature
Imagine a world so crushingly dark that sunlight has never set foot there. The water is cold enough to make ice jealous, and the…
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Nature
The Sun looks calm from here, doesn’t it? A glowing, reliable disc above the clouds, punctual as a British train schedule in theory, though…
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Nature
Prefer to listen? Enjoy the story of Emperor Penguin on Youtube If there were ever a bird that could wear a tuxedo better than…
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Nature
Prefer to listen? Enjoy the full story of Komodo Dragon on Youtube You might think the world ran out of dragons sometime after the Middle…
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Nature
Imagine a creature that builds a house out of sand, lives kilometres beneath the sea, and happens to be a single cell. That’s not…
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Nature
Imagine walking across Antarctica — endless white, nothing but ice and wind for days. Now, picture that beneath your boots lies not frozen rock,…
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Nature
Once upon a time, on a sunny little island in the Indian Ocean, there lived a bird that had it all figured out. No…
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