The Amazon River carries more water than the Nile, Yangtze, and Mississippi rivers combined.

Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Some plants can survive long periods of drought.

Fogbows are white rainbows formed when droplets in fog are too small to separate colors.

Tornadoes can rotate at up to 500 km/h — and can travel hundreds of miles.

Ants that are infected by a certain fungus climb plants, clamp onto a leaf, and die — allowing the fungus to sporulate.

The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall at 3,212 feet.

The strangler fig germinates in the canopy and sends roots down — eventually enveloping and killing the host tree.

Extremophiles have been found in conditions previously thought impossible for life — boiling hot springs, salt flats, and deep ice.