Stay curious.
Remarkable skills. Clever inventions. Unreal places. A wonderfully wild world.
Do frigatebirds sleep in flight? Do wild sea otters hold hands? Five animal sleep claims checked against what researchers recorded, and how few animals some studies used.
Explore the story →What’s your kind of awesome?
There’s a whole world out there
Explore adrenaline sports, exceptional skills and the work behind remarkable achievements.
Discover inventions, unusual gadgets and ingenious engineering. We distinguish real products from prototypes and concepts.
Discover remarkable landscapes, unusual architecture and natural phenomena—with the story behind the scenery.
Explore animal intelligence, unusual behaviour and remarkable wildlife, with context that goes beyond the clip.
Worth a closer look
Wild & AwesomeDo frigatebirds sleep in flight? Do wild sea otters hold hands? Five animal sleep claims checked against what…
Wild & AwesomeFrom a 106-acre aspen clone to a seagrass meadow that gene tests say is one plant: record-size living…
Wild & AwesomePitfall, flypaper, snap, catapult and suction: five carnivorous plant traps, how each works, and the speeds researchers report…
Wild & AwesomeStick insects, leafy sea dragons, orchid mantises, owl butterflies, hoverflies and cuckoos: six disguises, and what the studies…
Wait a second...
A spectacular photograph. An impossible-looking invention. An animal doing something unexpected. We look beyond the wow to find the explanation.
Look behind the wow →We aim to trace stories to their original sources, explain what makes them remarkable, and be clear about what’s verified. Because the story behind the wow is often the most interesting part.
Our editorial standards →