What if all the Earth’s land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the...
Pangolins are now critically endangered in Asia because of poachers and traffickers. But why is there so much demand for them? And why are they so important to their...
I’m not talking about a gourmet dinner. There’s no wining and dining here. Instead, you’re seeing a wake of vultures tucking into what might be their...
“The nicknames that it has, the Bridge of Pain, Gladiator School, Torture Island, the name speaks for itself.” Those are the words of former Rikers inmate Vidal Guzman...
Imagine floating silently above cities, countryside, and wilderness, traveling in luxurious airships without engines roaring or massive amounts of fuel being burned. A...
Mike Hodge, who founded the Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi, South Africa, was surrounded by lions and tigers that he had looked after for many years, just as he...
The beach is one of the first places we think of when we hear the word sand. But sand is far more important than building castles or relaxing by the ocean. It is one of...
The modern circus was never the same after 1812; what had previously been concerned with horse tricks, musicians, and clowns started to include wild animals and began...
If you could peek into someone else’s dreams, what would you see? Would they be fully-realized scenes with clearly defined people and environments? Or would they...
Love can make us do some pretty crazy things. When we’re in love, our brains release a cocktail of neurochemicals that not only affect our moods and our well...
Some places in the Solar System have some pretty expensive rain falling on their surface. Let’s see if we could bring those home. What would it take for Earth to...
Every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region of Japan to watch men ride enormous logs down a mountainside. Not metaphorically. They climb on top of...
