Nature & Animals
Life on Earth, from microbes to mammals, and how it evolved.
Nature & Animals Microbes
A teaspoon of healthy soil holds more microbes than there are people on Earth
Nature & Animals Reptiles & Amphibians
Argentinosaurus may be the heaviest land animal ever to walk the Earth
Nature & Animals Evolution
More time separates us from T. rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus
Nature & Animals Microbes
One bacterium survives radiation that would kill a human thousands of times over
Nature & Animals Microbes
A Dutch cloth merchant was the first to see microbes — through homemade lenses
Nature & Animals Birds
The ostrich is the largest bird, lays the largest egg, and outruns a racehorse
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Nature & Animals Marine Life
Oregon's highway crew tried to blow up a whale with half a ton of dynamite
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