These wild wallabies are a long way from home
You might think wallabies were only found in the wild in Australia. They are, after all, the name for the nation’s rugby union team. Yet after a g...
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Silky anteater | Meet the smallest anteater in the world
The brilliantly named silky anteater is the smallest in the world, weighing in at an average of 10 ounces. Found in Central and South America, they...
Meet General Sherman, the largest tree in the world
The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park weighs 2,000 tons. Located only a 90-minute drive from Fresno, California, it’s the largest, h...
What caused the Great Smog of 1952?
Seventy-one years ago today, London was plunged into the ‘Great Smog’. Over the course of the next five days, some 4,000 people would die as a dir...
The kangaroo that lives up in the trees
They might be less famous than their ground-dwelling cousins, but this is the tree kangaroo. Native to the rainforests of New Guinea and also found on...
Point Nemo | Where the nearest humans are astronauts
Point Nemo, or the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, is the place in the world where you are furthest from land. There’s really nothing there except p...
These giant lemurs are scientifically proven to have rhythm
Meet the indri lemur, also known as a babakoto. This funny-looking creature is the largest lemur in the world and sadly it's critically...
Inside the Elephant Nature Park reimagining Thailand’s elephant tourism
Since the 1990s, an area of northern Thailand has provided refuge for injured and rescued elephants. Open to the public, the Elephant Nature Park is a...
What is the deepest fish in the sea?
There are plenty of fish in the sea – an estimated 3.5 trillion of them, it turns out – but only one can claim to be the deepest dwelling of them all...
The real-life Disney dog sniffing out rare sea turtle nests
Over the summer months, sea turtles crawl ashore in the southeastern US to lay their eggs on the same beach they themselves were once born. Humans...
Largest search for Loch Ness monster in 50 years
A giant hunt for the Loch Ness monster is happening this weekend, with believers in the mythical creature descending on the Scottish Highlands for the...
This is the world's most remote lighthouse
A picturesque lighthouse rests lonely on top of a jagged rock off the southwest coast of Iceland. It’s famed as the world’s most isolated lig...
