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Topic: death
The communal support within Crested Black Macaque monkey troops
Crested Black Macaques endure torrential rains on the northern end of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It's the only forest on Earth where they can be found. BBC Earth visits this Lands of the Monsoon locale to obse...
What is dust made of?
Less than a tenth the size of an ant, a dust mite’s whole world is contained in the dusty film under a bed or in a forgotten corner. This realm is right under our noses, but from our perspective, the tiny specks of br...
Running Lights, an animated short by Ged Sia
The unfortunate death of a wild hare turns into a remarkable experience for a couple of children who find his little body. They feel obliged to solve this matter; therefore, they bury him in a playground. Once buried,...
The discovery of King Tut and what we’ve learned from his tomb
Ever wonder how Egyptian royalty lived 3,000 years ago? In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter’s discovery of an intact tomb revealed a wealth of artifacts and information that turned King Tut into a household n...
This giant plant looks like raw meat and smells like dead rat
This gigantic flower, native to western Sumatra and infamous for smelling like something rotten, is the corpse flower or titan arum, and it's not really a single flower. The flowers are at the base of the tall spadix ...
Sara Berman’s Closet
"And here we are, in the midst of elaborate trappings, of elaborate lives: An illumination of how important a modest life can be. This closet, all lined up with military precision and loving care, represents the unend...
Unmasking the Secrets That Ancient Mummies Hold
For more than a century, archaeologists have dismantled mummy coffins, also known as cartonnage, in a hunt for literary treasure. In ancient Egypt, undertakers entombed the departed middle-class in sheets of papyrus t...
The Dipped Painting Project by Oliver Jeffers
From children's book author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, a project that explores memory and loss in a mix of art and experience: The Dipped Painting Project. In November of 2014 I began the first of a series of ...
Ma’agalim, Jane Bordeaux, & journeys inside an old penny arcade
"In a forgotten old penny arcade a wooden doll is stuck in place and time." This is Ma'agalim (Circles), a beautifully animated music video by Tel Aviv-based band Jane Bordeaux and director Uri Lotan.
Wim van Egmond’s award-winning microscopic videos
Winning first place in Nikon's 2015 Small Worlds in Motion competition, this is a Trachelius ciliate feeding on a Campanella ciliate -- "a classic life and death struggle played out in miniature" -- captured by Wim va...
Dia de los Muertos – An animated journey to the land of the dead
Dia de los Muertos, the 2013 story of a little girl who learns the true meaning of the Day of the Dead -- remembering and celebrating loved ones who have died. The animation is a Ringling College of Art and Design stu...
Antarctica’s Ice Formations: Volcanic ice caves & undersea brinicles
The caves of Mount Erebus, Antarctica's only active volcano, hide fragile and sparkling secrets: spectacular ice stalagmites, stalactites, shards, and feather-like crystals that form from the volcanic steam and gases ...
Dead stuff – The secret ingredient in our food chain
When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happily munching on lush, living green plants. But this idyllic image leaves out a huge (and slightly less appetizing) source of nouri...
ScienceTake: A Surprising Appetite for Dead Jellyfish
Marine scientists previously suspected that dead jellyfish were not a preferred choice of food for ocean floor scavengers, but a recently-recorded test using Helmet and Lion’s Mane jellyfish has prompted a rethinking ...
The Animal That Wouldn’t Die: The Hydra
Just a few millimeters long and full of embryonic cells, the hydra is a small and mysterious cnidarian polyp that seems to defy mortality. Skunk Bear's Adam Cole and Robert Krulwich team up to tell the amazing tale of...
Feedback loops – How nature gets its rhythms
A grasshopper eats grass, a rat can eat the grasshopper, a snake may eat the rat, and a hawk will eat the snake. When these food chains interweave, they create a food web. Plants and animals (including humans) live, e...
We Are Dead Stars – Dr. Michelle Thaller
We are dead stars. Everything we are – the iron in our blood, every element we've ever heard of – is made from a star, a dust cloud collapsing under the force of gravity. Astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller si...
Pouring 1200F molten aluminum into an anthill?
To study the architecture of ant colonies and their nests, entomologist and myrmecologist Walter Tschinkel developed a way to “record” their three-dimensional underground chambers: he pours 1200F molten a...
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