This is a 3D visualization created by Popular Science comparing the weights of Pokemon to real animals that weigh the same to give a better sense of their heft. Some more info to prove somebody actually spent time thinking about this: If Pokémon existed in the wild, which animals would
This is a video captured by wildlife artist Robert E Fuller of a winter murmuration of starlings at dusk at the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England (love your pudding!). Per Robert: “Starling murmurations are one of Britain’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Studies suggest the birds congregate in great swirling masses
This is a video of a woman tastefully adding googly eyes to a black rug to tie a room together and inviting us to play a game of “Can you find my black cat?” The cat opens its eyes and she zooms in on it, but I did NOT see
This is a short video of Josiah Ross’s adopted orange cat Philip reacting to Josiah leaving the apartment. Philip does not take it well, and as commenters pointed out, Josiah should probably get another cat to keep Philip company (the more the merrier, that’s my motto, but only up to
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
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,