The migratory Arctic tern travels from pole to pole each year — roughly 44,000 miles round trip.

The world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, is made from beans eaten and excreted by civets.

Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.

Some spiders spin silk stronger than steel by weight.

Some prehistoric insects grew much larger than modern insects.

Wildfires can create their own weather systems.

Volcanoes can create new land through lava flows.

Water is the only common substance on Earth that naturally exists in all three states — solid, liquid, and gas — at everyday temperatures.

Tardigrades can survive extreme radiation, freezing, and even space.