Some scenes, like the one from our video 'The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba', have so many layers that it might be a real challenge to spot all of them!

66 million years ago, the world was quite different. It was covered with lush forests, an incredible diversity of plants and trillions of critters. Dinosaurs had diversified into hundreds of different species. It was an ancient paradise, changed forever by the Chicxulub asteroid.

Even with just eyes, mouth and a pair of hands, a smoke monster can be animated to look quite scary!

Witness the most violent phenomenon in the known universe, a massive star exploding as a supernova, on the May page of our 12,024 calendar. Massive amounts of cosmic radiation cross dozens of light-years, affecting any life in the way, either by killing it or fostering evolution.

The centers of most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole, and they are monstrous. In the Milky Way, we have one called Sagittarius A*. We know it's located at the center of our galaxy because we can see a number of stars being thrown around by a seemingly empty spot.

You have been chosen to become one of the first settlers on the newly terraformed Venus. Everyone is allowed to bring only two items from Earth, what would you bring with you?

Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System with a surface temperature of 460°C. This temperature can melt lead and is a result of the most extreme greenhouse effect in the Solar System. CO2 is great at trapping heat, and Venus's atmosphere is 97% CO2.

Hmm… this new star looks suspicious.

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Follow the life of a star from its birth to what comes after its death - with our new and sparkly The Stellar Life Cycle Poster (extra shiny)! Duck, our main quality inspector, approves! Get it here: kgs.link/3xtl7Ee

Don’t worry about the Tardigrade. She just wants to play!
Play with the tardigrade and other kaiju-sized creatures in our first VR experience “Out of Scale: A Kurzgesagt Adventure” – now available on Meta Quest: kgs.link/OutOfScale

Why haven't we found aliens, yet? The reason could lie in our past. Let’s travel back in human history, to the colonization of Oceania over 5000 years ago to find answers: kgs.link/AlienOcean

You found a coin-sized black hole. What are your next moves?

When the aliens you invited to Earth 400 years ago finally arrive but they're not as friendly as you hoped they'd be.

Viruses are the most successful beings on this planet, and they are everywhere. There are an estimated 10,000 billion, billion, billion viruses on Earth. In fact, if we put them all next to each other, they would stretch for 100 million light years – 500 Milky Way galaxies wide.

During infection, your macrophages call for neutrophils, which vomit deadly chemicals at bacteria or devour them. Some even go so far as to self-destruct and explode, casting wide and toxic nets made from their own DNA, filled with deadly chemicals which trap and kill bacteria.

Alright, who gave this bacteria a knife?

For our video 'You Are Not Where You Think You Are', our birbs decided to create as many different thumbnails to choose from as there are stars in the sky!

Fossils are any sort of remains preserved from past geological ages. Those can be bones or shells, remains and imprints, or various things preserved in amber. The totality of all fossils on earth is called the fossil record and it is the most important window on the past.

Welcome to the molecular realm!
Can you believe that these bizarre formations are actually air molecules?

Explore this and other fascinating worlds in our first VR experience “Out of Scale: A Kurzgesagt Adventure” on Meta Quest:
kgs.link/OutOfScale