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How devastating is the world’s largest nuclear weapon? Stephen Fry explains.

Thanks to spotted hyenas’ unusual social structure, males experience a tough life of solitude, harassment, and deprivation.

Sometimes, it makes sense for critters across the animal kingdom to chow down on their own young. If you enjoyed this video, you might want to check out this one by Jesse Agar: Why kill a baby?

Animals of different species rarely get it on, and when they do, they rarely produce offspring.

Most human parents-to-be assume that the sex of their child comes down to a flip of the chromosomal coin, with an equal chance of having a boy or girl.

Can you find an oxbow lake in GoogleEarth?

Earth didn't have water when it formed, but it does now! How did it get wet?

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Nipah. Hendra. Ebola. Marburg. SARS. All of these nasty pathogens have surfaced in humans in just the last 50 years, and they are all carried by bats.

Check out Extra Credits' video: The Origin of Dragons youtube.com/watch?v=rL8qSfXIo4M We ranked dragons based on how biologically and evolutionarily plausible they are.

Rotting meat is host to some of the world's most lethal toxins...and yet some animals regularly stomach the stuff without getting sick. Here's how they do it.

Download Opera for FREE here: opr.as/Opera-browser-minuteearth Beehives always have a queen, who is the mother of the entire hive.

Have you ever wondered what was going on with your bodily functions while you were in the womb? To put it a little more bluntly, did you, you know, pee and poop in there?

To be able to see things clearly, your eyeballs need to be a certain shape. Today, though, around half of the world’s kids have eyeballs that are too long - and as a result, they have blurry vision.

Thanks to Wet Tropics Management Authority for supporting MinuteEarth - wettropics.gov.au Dealing with invasive species is a real bugger, especially in a modern, globalized world.

India and China have so many people today because they’re good for farming and big, but they’ve always been that way, so they’ve actually had a huge proportion of Earth’s people for thousands of

It's easy to assume that every trait - including stubby arms on a terrifying predator - must be beneficial, but the forces of evolution don't really work like that.

Herein we explain that birds do not hibernate in lakes, do not migrate to the moon, but DO go on very unique journeys, which we humans have learned about in a variety of ingenious manners.

A broken bone might seem worse than a sprain, but you'll get over it much more quickly.

Here we explain how Port Royal - "the most wicked and sinful city in the world", cars, roads, and huge buildings can sink into the ground during during earthquakes or blasting.

Sand, whether you use it for building sand castles, telling time with an hourglass, or hydraulic fracturing, is pretty much the same just about anywhere you go -- an uncountable number of tiny

Most dog-owners say companionship is the number one reason to have a cuddly, devoted tail-wagger, and some people also have dogs for assistance or protection. And they’re so cute!

We might have a strong hand because having a weak hand is actually useful.

Monogamy isn’t that popular in the animal kingdom, and it turns out that even "love birds" are often cheaters.

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In 1959, the Soviet spaceship Luna 3 beamed back images of something Earthlings had never seen before: the far side of the moon. CREDITS ********* Emily Elert | Script Writer Henry Reich |

Sign up for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: ow.ly/vFtO30siJJT Because females often outlive males, behavior is often blamed - but there is a decent chance our sex chromosomes might be to

If you get caught in the middle of a big, open field during a lightning storm, which of the following uniforms would be most likely to keep you safe?

Come play Beast Lord on Android and iOS here: beastlord.onelink.me/4a2w/MinuteEarth And use redeem code: MINUTEEARTH #BeastLord #AnimalGame #LionGame Humans eat a lot of different animals

Learn more about quokkas over on @animalogic youtube.com/watch?v=nj-EGNN5HwQ Animals eat their own poop in order to gain extra access to nutrients or to microbes that help digest those