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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
A single 'supercolony' of Argentine ants is thought to stretch some 6,000 km along the…
The electric eel can generate a jolt of around 600 volts
The Australian superb lyrebird can imitate almost any sound it has ever heard
Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from…
A 49-foot bowhead whale killed by Iñupiat hunters in May 2007 was found to have been…
Elephants can swim, charge and rear up, yet they cannot jump
Vietnam's Son Doong is the world's largest cave passage, with a volume of about 38.5…
Approximately 10,000 years ago, teenagers in what is now western Sweden chewed wads of…
Singapore's Marina Barrage transformed a polluted tidal estuary into a freshwater…
The Strait of Malacca and Singapore Strait grow so shallow in places that fully laden…
