The Insect That Freezes To Survive | Nature’s Biggest Beasts | BBC Earth
but if you’re cold-blooded you rely on a daily dose of sun to warm up your insides so reptiles and insects generally fare better in the cold when they’re small some species though just can’t help but defy convention remember the gargantuan bird eating cricket of the kalahari well it has a distant cousin that […]
Albatrosses Use Their Nostrils To Fly | Nature’s Biggest Beasts | BBC Earth
the wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any bird alive today and an albatross can do something hatsey apparently couldn’t hunt from the air these big birds spend most of their lives at sea scouring the ocean’s surface for food they only come in to land to breed this royal albatross has made a […]
The Creation Of The Universe | Universe | BBC Earth
so here is the creation story as told by science in the beginning there was an ocean of energy that drove a rapid expansion of space known as inflation there were ripples in the ocean as inflation ended the ocean of energy was converted into mata and the big bang and the pattern of the […]
This Fungus Turns Insects Into Zombies | Natural Born Killers | BBC Earth
were turned into zombies by fungi [Music] behind the scenes at kew gardens in london the underground fungarium collection houses over a million specimens which have come from all over the world amongst the shells of the climate-controlled collection a handful of disturbing bugs stand out these unfortunate creatures have all been victims of varieties […]
Corpse Flower Stinks of Death I The Green Planet I BBC Earth
on the lower slopes of the mountain a plant grows that has no leaves at all or even a stem all that can be seen is this a bud it is a parasite the rest of its body lies within the tissues of a liana on which it feeds after about five years the bud […]
Genius Octopus Can Open Jars | Octopus In My House | BBC Earth
[Music] and the unique evolutionary journey of the octopus come on heidi makes this intelligence particularly intriguing for a start the intelligence of an octopus is not just gathered as one lump in its head like it is with us parts of the octopus intelligence are distributed in its arms [Applause] and that means that […]
Why are Ferrets So Bendy? | Weasels: Feisty & Fearless | BBC Earth
dr angela horner is the world’s leading expert in ferret locomotion ferrets are really neat it’s almost as though you have an animal in liquid form they have a really well adapted body design to move rapidly through a tunnel and change direction quickly and has to be small enough to enter a tunnel but […]
Stoat Mother Hunts to Feed Kits | Weasels: Feisty & Fearless | BBC Earth
stoats and weasels are at their most vulnerable when they are young their early weeks are full of challenges and important life lessons it’s now june bandita has brought all four kits back to stout city and they’ve made their home in one of rob’s specially rigged nests the kits are nine weeks old but […]
Kali The Lioness Finds Her Dead Cub | Serengeti II | BBC Earth
[Music] [Applause] a pride should always look out for its own but kali can’t be sure if she can depend on the males her feud with sephora has escalated and it’s not just about food cefu wants cubs he can be sure are his own kali must spread carefully she can’t have severus cubs while […]
Baby Weasel Playtime | Weasels: Feisty & Fearless | BBC Earth
orphaned weasel twizz is now five weeks old her eyes have opened her hearing is becoming more acute and she’s much more active in the wild twiz would be playing with the rest of her litter so rob has to take over this role Roleplay play is how a weasel would learn how to fight […]