Author Matt Havercroft

Matt Havercroft

Recent articles by Matt Havercroft
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon

"Their venom is a highly potent neurotoxin, 15 times more toxic than a rattlesnake’s..." 10 most dangerous, deadliest animals in the Grand Canyon… 

Mountain lions, poisonous lizards and tarantula-eating wasps: introducing the Grand Canyon’s most deadly wildlife
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in of chopped canned tomatoes with whole fresh tomatoes, isolated on white background, soft light

"Floating in the red juice was a corpse..." 10 of the most shocking wild animals found in supermarkets

You never know what could be lurking in supermarket aisles says Matt Havercroft
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60 metres below an arid desert lies a secret, gigantic underground lake that's hundreds of metres deep and home to animals found nowhere else on earth

It might sound like a location from The Game of Thrones, but the Dragon’s Breath Cave, hidden deep below the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, is actually the home of a vast 264-metre-deep lake, with a surface area the size of two football pitches
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Nobody, New Mexico, Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano, Lava Tube Entrance and Cinder Cone in the Distance. (Photo by: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"It's a land of frozen fire – a vast volcanic landscape shaped by violent eruptions and molten magma." Today wildlife, including deadly snakes, thrive here...

Into America’s volcanic ‘badlands’: Explore a land of fire and ice in the El Malpais National Monument in northwestern New Mexico, USA
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Deep enough to swallow skyscrapers and filled with deadly toxic gases, it plunges so far into Earth even robots have never reached the bottom

Extreme depths, low visibility, acid water and unbreathable surface air: welcome to the world’s deepest known freshwater cave, the Hranice Abyss
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