This is a video of 10-year old autistic birder Samuel Henderson performing a series of spot-on bird calls during a talent show at his Oklahoma City school. He just keeps going, with each call even more impressive than the last. I wouldn’t have even been able to stand up in
These are several videos highlighting Norway’s Preikestolen (aka Pulpit Rock), a naturally formed granite overhang with a sheer drop of 604-meters (1,982 feet). The rock attracts some 300,000 visitors each year, and was formed 10,000 years ago in the most recent Ice Age. And, unlike US tourist attractions, the overhang
This is a video from a depth of 3,300 meters (10,827 feet — more than 2 miles) in the Tonga Trench (the second deepest trench behind the Mariana) between new Zealand and Fiji of a rarely seen Bigfin squid (misnomer, should have been named Longleg Squid) trolling its 13-foot tentacles
Just in time for spooky season comes the announcement of a new species of ‘ghost shark’ (actually a chimaera or spookfish, but closely related to sharks and rays), found in the ocean depths off Australia and New Zealand. Looking suspiciously like Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas, the ocean ghost
This is a short video of a stone crab “stealing” diver Duran Roberts’s camera in The Bahamas and trying to make a run scuttle for it. It then attempts to fight Duran for the camera when he tries to take it back. But was the camera actually stolen, or did
Gatsby, a rescue cat affectionately known as Galaxy Kitty (links to his Instagram with a million videos), is a tuxedo cat with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment, resulting in Gatsby’s galactic coloration. Gatsby and his sister (with normal coloration) were rescued together
This is a short security cam video that captured the end life cycle of a road sign, from initial accident (sideswiped by a bus) to eventual death (drunk man breaking post, carrying pole away). That poor sign — you almost feel bad for it. Then you remember it’s just a
This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you