If you’ve never seen a live giant squid, don’t despair. Neither has anybody else. But this huge, ugly cephalopod–60 feet long, with eight grasping arms and two longer tentacles, a sharp beak and a pair of staring eyes–has been found dead a number of times, with bodies washed up at beaches around the world. The […] Read more

The Gobi desert of Central Asia is one of the earth’s most desolate places. It’s million square kilometers of sand dunes, sculpted badlands, and saw toothed mountains are alternately scorched by summer’s high latitude sun and frozen by winter’s Siberian winds. It’s not a place to explore unprepared. Crossing vast uninhabitable areas, between a sprinkling […] Read more

If you have not yet heard of goji, you are not alone. While it has occupied an important place in traditional Asian medicine for countless generations, the use of its nutritional benefits have remained a mystery to most of the world […] Read more

Across the African continent another population of Gorillas evolved. Their habitat straddles the volcanic ranges that join Zooganda and the democratic republic of Congo and spreads into the lower mountain forest. It gets chilly in the mountains; their shorter limbs and shaggy hair help protect them from the cold. They travel mostly on the ground; […] Read more

The youngest of the Rocky Mountains, the Teton Range is a spectacular sight. Enhanced by glaciers, deep canyons, snowfields, and lakes, the range shoots up suddenly, with no foothills around it. The three Tetons – South, Middle, and Grand – lure casual tourists and serious climbers alike, year round […] Read more

On September 2, 1666, during an extremely hot summer, the City of London was burned by a great fire. Over 12,000 homes were destroyed, many churches were damaged and more than 80 percent of the building material was destroyed. No other city on earth had faced destruction like this, due to fire, since the times […] Read more

In 1916, the hospital ship Britannic was rocked by sudden, massive explosion and sunk in less than an hour. Was it bad luck or something more sinister? It would be 60 years before the world’s most intrepid undersea explorers began to unravel the mystery. While Titanic is the most infamous of all ship disaster the […] Read more

The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, is a large lamniform shark found in the coastal surface waters in all major oceans.It is known for its size, with the largest known individuals known to have approached or exceeded 20 ft in length, and 5000 lb in weight.This shark reaches maturity […] Read more

Twelve degrees north latitude is a great address in the Caribbean. Far south of the path of hurricanes and most cruise ships, Grenada quietly remains a place where abundance is still in abundance. The 12-by-21 mile island so overflows with natural endowments–healthy coral reefs, solitary beaches, and mountainous rainforests–that you don’t care if the way […] Read more