Because teamwork makes the dream work (or so I’ve heard — all my team projects in school usually failed and I got accusatory peer-evaluations), this is a short video of a group of turtles coming to the rescue of another that’s found itself floundering upside-down in a pond. Did Michelangelo
Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released back
This is some footage from a manned research submarine investigating the life around a methane seep off the coast of Costa Rica when it encountered a new species (Pectinereis strickrotti) of deep sea worm, that appear to swim almost as if they’re magic carpets. Freaky! Per submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott,
This is a short video of an Akita Inu who fell asleep in the rain and left a perfectly dry outline of himself when he woke up. Damn, he didn’t budge an inch while he was asleep! My dogs? They like to kick in their sleep. Specifically, me. I like
Because dogs never cease to amaze me (one of mine ate a wooden yardstick yesterday), this is a video of a sharpshooting canine hitting three targets in a row with what appear to be elastic hairbands, using its foot and mouth to launch the projectiles. It manages to hit a
This is a video of feline Ben of Lufingen-Augwil, Switzerland protecting a practice green cup at Golf Augwil from the attempted putts of a golfer. I thought Ben was going to miss that third ball, but he made an incredible late save. PAR DENIED. Should actual golf tournaments have cat
This is a visual comparison of increasingly larger fish, from the diminutive 1cm Paedocypris progenetica to the 30m blue whale. The video begins using a grasshopper for scale before moving to a bunny, and finally, humans. There are some big fish out there! Me? I’m neither the smallest nor the
This is a Guinness World Record video highlighting the tongue of a St. Bernard named Mochi, who was just awarded the record for longest dog tongue. You may recall the recently posted record holder for largest circumference human female tongue. It’s a world record tongue kind of week. Next week: