This is a clip of a real life roadrunner vocalizing. Shockingly, it does not make the ‘Meep meep!’ we’ve all come to expect from watching cartoons. It’s more of a really quick clicking. Great, now what else have cartoons been lying to us about?! Next thing you know we’ll find
This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a video of a little mouse peering out of its hiding spot in a stove, deciding that the coast is clear (despite the fact there’s a person standing right there filming), and stealing an OREO before quickly retreating back to its hidey hole. PLEASE NOTE: I will accept
This is a video from an aquarium where the audience is anxiously awaiting a penguin’s dive into the water from a suspended ramp when the bird slips and falls into the drink instead. Honestly, I doubt even a cartoon penguin could make a more comical scene, I don’t care how
This is a video of multi-species (including homo sapiens) chiropractor Dr. Joren Whitley providing an adjustment to a giraffe with a stiff neck to allow its jaw to move the right way to properly chew. Man, if Joren can work his magic on giraffe’s neck he must be a total
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