Utah's Otherworldly Landscapes

For lions hunting buffalo in the Manyeleti, calculation is always at play: An adult male buffalo may be harder to bring down, but offers 500 pounds more meat than a female.

What Lions Look for in the Perfect Prey (2:25)

Painter Marianne North's obsession with local Borneo vegetation led her to one of the most unusual and rare plants in the world: the flesh-eating pitcher plant, located deep in the forests of Kuching.

Marianne North's Obsession with the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant (3:41)

How does the desert-dwelling oryx survive a body temperature that would kill other mammals? The answer lies in a panting mechanism that lowers the temperature of the blood in its head.

How the Desert Oryx Stops Its Brain From Frying (1:35)

Marianne North was not your typical Victorian noblewoman content to simply enjoy the comforts of British high society. Instead, an itch for traveling propelled her all over the globe, visiting 12 countries in just six years.

What It Took to Travel the World Solo as a 19th-Century Woman (1:53)

The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred site in Burma. Its origins can be traced back to the first millennium, when a king was inspired by a legend involving eight strands of Buddha's hair.

How Buddha's Hair Inspired Burma's Most Sacred Site (2:02)

A cheetah mother caring for her cubs stumbles across an opportunity too good to pass up: a herd of springbok, grazing casually nearby

Incredible: A Cheetah Sprints to Catch a Springbok (3:18)

Lowering a massive compressor 984 feet down onto the seafloor isn't easy, even for a ship the size of North Sea Giant. For starters, each single yard of steel used to lower it weighs over 100 lbs.

Installing Massive Machinery on the Seafloor Is Incredibly Dicey (3:02)

Mickey Ganitch, a U.S. sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor, was gearing up for a football game on December 7, 1941, when hundreds of fighter pilots appeared in the sky. He recounts the rest of that horrific day and how he narrowly survived.

A Pearl Harbor Veteran Tells His Harrowing Story of Survival (2:32)

Ground squirrels in the Kalahari have devised a remarkable method to guarantee portable shade: they use their tails as umbrellas.

Adorable Ground Squirrels Playing in Sweltering Heat (0:49)