Swapping screen time for sunlight may improve your child's vision ☀️ Myopia—or nearsightedness—is on the rise, especially among children. Since the sun helps us produce dopamine, which regulates eye growth and keeps our retinas in shape, getting your kids to spend more time outside can help—but how much sunlight is necessary to promote good eye health? Find out more about preventing myopia at the link in bio.

Photos by michaelgeorge | No, this is not the New York City subway. But if you swipe to the next slide, you’ll see just how crowded this beach actually is. In total there are 100,000 breeding pairs of king penguins, making this the third largest colony in the world. Welcome to Macquarie, a subantarctic island that didn’t always look this way. Once plagued by rabbits, mice, and cats, it took 10 years and 25 million dollars of funding from the Tasmanian and Australian governments to eliminate the mammals that humans brought over. These creatures had decimated the plants and wildlife of the island, but since the program’s completion in 2014, there’s been a full bounce back. Fields of mega herbs and tussock grass (once barren wasteland, thanks to the rabbits) now flourish, and the beaches are so thick with king, gentoo, and royal penguins it can be hard to walk around. For more stories from remote places, follow along michaelgeorge.

Ocean exploration can go deeper thanks to the power of technology. Smaller, faster chips and processors from companies like Arm are helping experts like Nat Geo Explorer Ved Chirayath comprehensively map the ocean floor for the first time in history. Learn more at the link in bio. | Ved is just one of a new generation of explorers who are using the high-performance, power-efficient Arm compute platform to harness the positive power of AI and push the boundaries of discovery.

For animals, making it through the winter isn’t as simple as turning up the heat or wrapping up in a cozy blanket—they need a strategy. While some simply burn their fat reserves, others burrow into the ground, and one particular species even produces its own antifreeze-like compound to help it weather the cold. Discover more of these wild winter survival tactics at the link in bio. Photograph by Margaret M Stewart/Shutterstock

Blue genes will NEVER go out of style. Season 2 of #ARealBugsLife, inspired by pixar's A Bug's Life and narrated by awkwafina, is now streaming on DisneyPlus!

roywoodjr’s new comedy special is all about connections—and so is nature. That's why he's here to offer his take on mating, fighting, and all things in between. Check out Roy Wood Jr. in Lonely Flowers, premiering tomorrow on hulu!

It's long been believed that modern humans followed a relatively straight path of evolutionary progress. But discoveries of new bone fragments and fossils around the world, alongside breakthroughs in DNA analysis, reveal a much more complex picture. Paleontologists now believe that early Homo sapiens shared the Earth and mated with a surprising variety of previously unknown human species. In this timelapse, paleoartist John Gurche meticulously constructs a model of a recently discovered hominin—known as Homo longi—based on fossil bones. Learn more about these "other humans" and our changing understanding of our evolutionary history at the link in bio. Photos by Mark Thiessen (thiessenphoto) and John Gurche (john_gurche_paleoart)

On Jingmai Mountain in China's Yunnan Province, Indigenous tea growers are holding fast to ancient techniques, defying modern farming as they produce premium Pu’er tea. For over a millennium, the region’s Dai and Blang peoples have used natural farming methods and maintained a close spiritual connection to their tea forests. Here, Dai tea growers pluck leaves in Da Ping Zhang, one of five tea forests on Jingmai Mountain. Learn more about China’s ancient tea forests and their caretakers at the link in bio. Photo by justin.jin

The bugs are back—and they’re better than ever! 🐛 Season 2 of #ARealBugsLife, inspired by pixar's A Bug's Life and narrated by awkwafina, is now streaming on DisneyPlus.