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Elephants squish giant pumpkins
See the cracks and hear the crunches as residents of Elephant Lands at the Oregon Zoo enjoy their annual Squishing of the Squash giant pumpkin treats. After the initial stomps and smashes are captured...
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From seed to 635.5 kg giant pumpkin, a time-lapse
“Big things start small,” reads the caption of pumpkin-dedicated YouTube channel giantpumpkins nl. “The plant grew half a metre a day and the pumpkin grew with 17 kg a day, this pumpkin turned into a...
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Rafflesia arnoldii, a bloom that smells like rotting meat
Rafflesia arnoldii. At 111 centimeters (3.64 feet) and up to 15 kilograms (around 33 pounds), it’s the world’s largest flower. Colossal. Massive and malodorous. “It appears to have fur, whiskers and...
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Sir David Attenborough gives a lesson on seeds
From air-filled sea hearts to the large and heavy coco de mer to incredibly tiny seeds like dust, “perhaps the most important time in the plant’s life is when it has to spread its seed,” explains Sir...
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Building a micro RC Car
Piece by tiny piece, this 1/87 scale BUSCH Smart Fortwo is converted into a micro RC car. It turns left and right, goes forward and reverses, and not only do the blinkers work in more than one...
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Two 100 Cylinder LEGO Cars
What happens when you build a 100-cylinder-long LEGO car? Will it be able to round corners or make U-turns? What happens when you build a 100-cylinder-tall LEGO car? Will this vertical H-engine...
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Why did sauropods have long necks?
“153 million years ago in Montana, the giant dinosaur known as Diplodocus wandered through a seasonal wetland looking for its lunch. Like most other sauropod dinosaurs, Diplodocus was pretty big – it...
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What was the biggest dinosaur and how did it get so big?
The iconic Tyrannosaurus rex might come to mind when you think about big dinosaurs.But when it comes to the biggest dinosaurs (that we know of), there’s a group of long-necked herbivores that make the...
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What are the largest black holes in the universe?
“Typical” black holes weigh around 3 to 10 solar masses. (One solar mass is equal to the mass of the sun, about 333,000 times the mass of Earth.) Supermassive black holes, which exist in the center of...
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Artist Willard Wigan makes the smallest sculptures in the world
Made from fragments of pottery, flecks of gold, and grains of sand, these Guinness World Record-setting micro-sculptures require months of meticulous work, crafted in between heartbeats for the...
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Why did Megalodon go extinct?
Megalodons, colossal sharks that ruled the oceans around 20 million years ago, were three times longer than the great white shark. Megalodons were apex predators that had “no shortage of high-energy,...
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The Evolution of Hummingbirds
“Hummingbirds are all about extremes. They flap their wings faster than any other bird, have a faster metabolism than almost any other animal, and have some species that are among the smallest living...
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What’s the longest word in the English language?
From the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Tom Scott asks, “what’s the longest word in the English language?” “And as often happens with linguistics,...
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