When Life Becomes Stone Picture this: a microscopic sea creature floating in the ocean, quietly performing alchemy. Without any furnaces,...

Forget everything you think you know about sharks. While great whites are out there being oceanic athletes and hammerheads are swimming...

Imagine you're walking through a tropical forest, admiring the green canopy above, when suddenly you realize that beautiful vine isn't a...

Imagine walking through an African savanna and looking up to see what appears to be a deli that exploded in a tree. Massive...

Picture this: You're a small Arctic ground squirrel in Alaska, and winter is coming. The temperature outside is about to plummet to...

"I'LL GET YOU, MY PRETTY!" Your sweet 5-year-old drops their voice three octaves, adds a theatrical rasp, and suddenly transforms into a...

The Amphibian That Broke All the Rules In the murky waters of South American rivers lives a creature so bizarre that when Europeans first...

A Flower That Stopped Conquistadors in Their Tracks Picture this: Spanish conquistadors trudging through South American jungles in the...

The Pig That Went for a Really Deep Swim Imagine a pig. Now imagine it's translucent, lives 4,000 meters underwater, breathes through its...

The Tree That Walks Imagine a tree that can walk. Not in the fantastical way of Tolkien's Ents, but through a slow, methodical conquest...