Accompanying text for the video from the Schmidt Ocean Institute: Video of a newly discovered species is now the world’s deepest known fish recorded at 8,143 m depth. The fish has a novel body form that has not been seen before. It stunned scientists because in other trenches, there is only one fish species at…

Last night, I discovered a documentary entitled, ‘The Private Life of Deer,’ about the habits of deer that live close to people, sometimes in suburban areas. Having stumbled upon it by chance, the program held my attention from the start, and left further channel surfing unnecessary. Here’s the full video, embedded below: Enjoy.

What would it sound like to be in a cave with bats, in a bat hibernaculum? With the recording below, designed for listening with headphones to simulate being surrounded by bats’ sounds, you’ll know. (Headphones make a discernible difference – it’s really quite something.) There are other tracks in the series, too: lemurs, humpback whales,…