In 1932, the Australian military took on a formidable foe that stood roughly six feet tall and could run up to 30 miles per hour. Machine guns and military tactics ...
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A study published in the journal Science in August 2017 determined that the elusive Greenland Shark is the world’s longest-living vertebrate at 272 years old and one of the oldest ...
L. Shyamal/Wikimedia A huge bee in the Himalayas makes honey unlike any other bee in the world. The honey it produces is a hallucinogen. But the fun doesn’t stop there. ...
Anthony Remboldt/Wikimedia Sand dunes are usually associated with the desert, but there is one place far from the heat that has them, and of all places, it’s in Alaska. These ...
Giant Pandas are endemic to China, and that country owns all the Giant Pandas throughout the world. A zoo in another country can get a panda on loan from China, ...
An Opened Corpse Flower Richard J. Rehman/Wikimedia It’s one of the rarest flowering plants in the world and also one of the smelliest. The Amorphophallus titanium, which is better known ...
There’s more behind the smell of freshly cut grass other than it is a pleasant aroma to most people. The scent is actually the plant giving out its own distress ...
The Hass Avocado, the one we enjoy in guacamole, sliced, or put on just about anything, is the avocado we most commonly see in the grocery store. But this best-selling ...
julie rohloff/Flickr CC 2.0 The Cave of the Crystals looks like something that should be part of a science fiction movie set, the scene of some mysterious planet, but the ...
Lake Baikal sits in southern Siberia and has the claim to fame of being not only the deepest lake in the world but also being the oldest lake and the ...
David Clark/Geograph Most gardens are lovely places that have flowers and other plants that are neatly arranged, and a particular garden in England is no different. Except enclosed within this ...
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