The Pantanal in South America is the world's largest tropical wetland area, covering up to 195,000 square kilometers.

The first flowering plants appeared during the Cretaceous period.

A single lightning bolt contains about one billion joules of energy but lasts only a fraction of a second.

A fire tornado is a spinning column of fire — they can reach 1,600°C and heights of over 100 meters.

A single colony of leafcutter ants can strip an entire tree of leaves overnight.

The Catatumbo lightning over a Venezuelan lake averages 28 lightning strikes per minute — nearly year-round.

A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.

Some plants like the telegraph plant move their leaves visibly in response to light — observable without time-lapse.

Trees in a forest communicate and share nutrients through fungal networks in the soil, sometimes called the 'wood wide web.'