This is a clip from some divers exploring the waters off the coast of Toyooka, Japan when they swam across a rarely seen giant squid. Just look at that thing! It’s easy to see now how stories of the kraken came to be. The squid, likely a juvenile only a

Because raccoons are nature’s ninjas, these are several videos from wildlife rehabilitator Angie Renée of a bunch of raccoons playing on, and trying to climb up, a playground slide. That looks like a good time, and I’m going to pretend I’m not upset that I wasn’t invited to this trash

This is a video of a precious lil penguin joining an arctic expedition, presumably to ensure the humans don’t stumble across the frozen Lost City Of Atlantis and reveal its secrets. Of course in reality (my least favorite place), it’s just using the path trampled by the humans to make

This is a video highlighting beautiful 15-year old long-haired calico Akkodha, who can say ‘okay’ in English. For reference, my cats can’t say anything that I understand, although their eyes speak volumes. Mostly about hatred and destruction. I’m not convinced Akkodha knows what she’s saying though, because I have the

This is a video of Balu and human Wolfgang Lauenburger setting the Guinness World Record for “most skips by a dog on hind legs in 30 seconds,” with a respectable quicker-than-one-a-second 32 jumps. Not too shabby. Wolfgang says he and Balu trained hard for the record, which I believe, because

Nature: it’s all around us. And that’s a good thing, unless you live in Australia where nature is hellbent on killing you. This is a video of building maintenance man on the roof the building he maintains investigating a great horned owl that’s been spotted on the premises. He gets

Because exercise is important, this is a video of TikTok user texast_85’s domesticated pet squirrel Daisy running along the top of a ceiling fan blades like a hamster wheel. Such finesse. Squirrels are so good with their feet, they hardly ever miss a step. They are not so good with

This is a video from Insider (previously) of marine biologist and shark scientist Amani Webber-Schultz rating ten different shark attacks (and shark scenes in general) from movies and TV shows based on their realism, dropping tons of shark knowledge in the water along the way like chum. Contestants include Jaws,