Nature

Explore the educational catalogue, one Discovery at a time.

• Archive 00473

  The hidden networks beneath a forest

• Archive 00500

  How a mangrove manages salt

• Archive 00501

  The layered architecture of a glass sponge

• Archive 00502

  The route an Arctic tern actually takes

• Archive 00503

  The partnership inside a fig

• Archive 00504

  The plant that survives drying almost completely

• Archive 00505

  The food web built around chemical energy

• Archive 01212

  Why kelp forests need a holdfast

• Archive 01213

  A seagrass meadow flowers underwater

• Archive 01214

  The animal partnership that builds a coral reef

• Archive 01215

  A salt marsh follows the tide

• Archive 01216

  Life in a tide pool has two clocks

• Archive 01217

  An estuary mixes more than water

• Archive 01218

  Why the deep sea receives marine snow

• Archive 01219

  A whale fall feeds a changing community

• Archive 01220

  Sargassum makes a floating nursery

• Archive 01221

  The daily commute of ocean plankton

• Archive 01222

  A cactus opens its gas exchange at night

• Archive 01223

  A pitcher plant supplements its diet

• Archive 01224

  An orchid begins with a fungal partner

• Archive 01225

  A seed can wait for the right season

• Archive 01226

  Why some seeds need a fire cue

• Archive 01227

  A fern reproduces without a flower

• Archive 01228

  Moss makes a miniature wet landscape

• Archive 01229

  A lichen is a living partnership

• Archive 01230

  Why deciduous trees release their leaves

• Archive 01231

  A tree ring records a growing season

• Archive 01232

  How a bat listens to its surroundings

• Archive 01233

  An owl locates a sound in the dark

• Archive 01234

  A hummingbird hovers to feed

• Archive 01235

  The web is part of a spider’s sensing system

• Archive 01236

  An octopus controls eight flexible arms

• Archive 01237

  A cuttlefish wears several kinds of camouflage

• Archive 01238

  Why a penguin feather coat stays useful in water

• Archive 01239

  A seal manages an underwater breath hold

• Archive 01240

  Why a camel stores fat in its hump

• Archive 01241

  How a kangaroo rat saves water

• Archive 01242

  A wood frog survives controlled freezing

• Archive 01243

  A bear’s winter is not ordinary sleep

• Archive 01244

  An insect changes its whole way of living

• Archive 01245

  Why a crab must leave its old armour

• Archive 01246

  A beaver changes the habitat around it

• Archive 01247

  A dung beetle recycles an animal’s meal

• Archive 01248

  A vulture makes a living from carrion

• Archive 01249

  Why ants tend some aphids

• Archive 01250

  A cleaner fish sells a useful service

• Archive 01251

  A clownfish finds shelter among stinging tentacles

• Archive 01252

  How a flower recruits a pollinator

• Archive 01253

  Why fruit can pay an animal to carry seeds

• Archive 01254

  A warning colour needs an audience

• Archive 01255

  A harmless hoverfly borrows a wasp’s appearance

• Archive 01256

  A parasite depends on a chain of hosts

• Archive 01257

  Predators can reshape a shore community

• Archive 01258

  Fire and grazing maintain a prairie

• Archive 01259

  A peat bog stores partly decomposed plants

• Archive 01260

  A desert comes alive after rain

• Archive 01261

  A rainforest has several living storeys

• Archive 01262

  Alpine plants live close to the ground

• Archive 01263

  A cave food web begins outside the cave

• Archive 01264

  A river flood connects water and land

• Archive 01265

  A temporary pond can exclude hungry fish

• Archive 01266

  A salmon changes its water balance

• Archive 01267

  A monarch migration spans generations

• Archive 01268

  A sea turtle returns to a nesting coast

• Archive 01269

  Why a wildlife corridor needs the right connections

• Archive 01270

  An island can make evolution take unusual paths

• Archive 01271

  An introduced species can change an ecosystem

• Archive 01272

  Restoration begins with the processes a habitat needs

• Archive 01273

  A seed bank keeps options for the future

• Archive 01274

  A tardigrade waits out a dry spell

• Archive 01275

  A springtail moves with a hidden spring

• Archive 01276

  Earthworms change the ground they eat

• Archive 01277

  Rotting wood remains a crowded habitat

• Archive 01278

  A diatom builds a glass wall

• Archive 01279

  Bioluminescence makes light for a living purpose