Because one does not simply walk into Mordor, this is a video of hikers ascending Mt Doom and getting pelted with red-hot lava rocks as the volcano actively erupts. You think this was right after Frodo disposed of the One Ring? At least the dog was smart enough to get

This is a clip from a livestream of the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines (the country’s most active volcano) that captured a meteor speeding by behind the active eruption. How about that! But are we SURE it was a meteor? Because MAYBE– “It’s not Frodo trying to throw the One

This is some drone footage from filmmaker Devon Massyn of the underwater volcano Kavachi in the Solomon Islands erupting. It’s pretty wild. And the sound! The volcanic activity heats and expands nearby water so quickly it’s the equivalent of a hot tub full of water instantly expanding to the size

This is a video of paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic discussing the unique physiology of the red-lipped batfish. Not to be confused with a batman, this multi-species named mutant has a beard, bioluminescent horn, and little front leg-fins it uses to walk along the bottom of the seafloor. See? Nothing

This is a delightful video from Epic Aussie Encounters featuring a variety of Australian wildlife seeing themselves in a mirror for the first time. There are birds, possums, kangaroos, more birds, wallabies, and more birds. I love birds, so this worked out well for me. Mirrors do not work out

This is a video captured by Douglas Barillas of a dust devil blowing a bunch of tumbleweeds around in the sky of Lake Los Angeles, California. I guess they’re not tumbleweeds anymore, they’re *putting on cool guy shades* flyweeds. Damn, I haven’t put on those cool guy shades on in

158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.

This is a clip from BBC Studios of a beaver in Yellowstone National Park felling a cottonwood tree and building a dam with it. Apparently beavers can take down a tree like this in a few hours, and a single beaver can fell several hundred trees a year. It’s amazing