Brumbies are what they call wild horses in Australia.
Since 1900, global average life expectancy has more than doubled.
The Joanine Library at Portugal’s University of Coimbra has a collection of 60,000 books that are protected by bats. Overnight, they eat beetles and moths that would otherwise destroy the books. To protect reading tables from guano, staff put out leather sheets at the end of each day.
The moth Mormogystia reibellii was formerly called the Mussolini moth.
Two weeks before filming began on biopic The Apprentice, actor Sebastian Stan, who portrayed Donald Trump, was told by the director that originally, he was going to cast a woman to play Trump.
This article appears in March 14 • 2025.