Habitats can be anything and animals are notoriously anywhere – even in our clean-swept streets and well-kept suburban lawns. These articles explore the more amazing, strange, rare, exotic and endangered species of the world as well as the places they live, from far-flung forests to right down the road.
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12 Comments »»See incredible images and video film footage of famous hurricanes like Katrina and Ike and tornadoes from Texas, Georgia, Kansas and Tornado Alley.
12 Comments »»This collection shows off the myriad properties of water - the reflectivity of pools, the transparency of ice, amazing color ranges and other curiously variable properties.
11 Comments »»Elemental earth art featuring ice formations, fjords and waterfalls, glaciers and ice, unusual lakes and beautiful water art.
35 Comments »»Some of the most famous and devastating natural disasters of human history, from deadly earthquakes and catastrophic landslides to devastating and massive sinkholes.
20 Comments »»See incredible images and descriptions of earth as art, from mountains to caves to craters to rock formations and holes, impressions and other assorted wonders of nature.
28 Comments »»Depending upon how the pictures are shot, HDR animal photography can bring out the best and brightest or darkest and most terrifying sides of domestic and wild animals.
3 Comments »»The effects of their bites range from painful to deadly for humans, and they inject their prey with lethal salivary secretions that immobilize them and ease ingestion and digestion.
8 Comments »»Learn about secret eco villages, sustainable cities, floating islands and futuristic eco housing developments and concepts you may or may not want to live in.
3 Comments »»From cows aligning on a North-South axis to baby turtles using built-in GPS to navigate oceans, animals are affected by terrestrial magnetism in amazing ways.
3 Comments »»Did you know that things from your local park or even household decorations could be fatal? Here are some of the most deadly poisonous plants around the world.
67 Comments »»From the odd forest of Chile to the stretches of icy Northern rainforest to bizarre cork woods in Europe, here are the most wondrous, odd threatened forests.
44 Comments »»Many primates have amazingly complex social structures, long evolutionary histories - but many are endangered in part due to the most infamous primates of all: us.
7 Comments »»Fractals are a wonder - too irregular for geometry; seemingly infinite. They turn up in food, germs, plants, mountains and more. Here are 18 stunning fractals.
37 Comments »»Some animals have been known to explode naturally, others intentionally, still others accidentally and some even self-destruct as part of a natural defense mechanism.
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