This is a video highlighting the work of conservationist Shawn Miller’s ‘Make The Switch 4 Nature‘ program, which aids in providing hermit crabs living in plastic waste shells with real shells. It also encourages humans to leave potential hermit crabs shells on the beach instead of taking them home to
This is a video from the Brookfield Zoo Chicago of Adelaide, a 56-year old Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (aka spiny anteater) celebrating her birthday with a special cake made out of ground mealworms and chicken puree. Yum! I wonder if visitors got a slice, I’ll never say no to cake.
In other avian news, this is a video of the winners of the European Gull Screeching Championship, a contest in which humans do their best seagull impressions. The competition appears to have been even fiercer than a gull fight over a french fry this year, with 60 bird impersonators from
This is a video highlighting the life of Chappy, a greater (I would argue the best) roadrunner that lives in Texas and comes to the door of wildlife rehabilitator Heather every morning. Chappy was rescued as a chick and returned to the wild, but comes to bring Heather a gift
This is a timelapse video of a powerful supercell thunderstorm in Oklahoma captured by storm chaser Chad Casey earlier this week. With the storm above and all those blinking red lights below it looks like a modern day Mordor. And maybe it is, I’ve never been to Oklahoma. It definitely
This is a short video of a ‘doomsday’ cloud that was spotted over Sydney, Australia following a storm. Quick, go buy up all the bottled water and toilet paper! [It’s] actually a rare scud cloud. A scud cloud typically appears with turbulent weather during the trailing part of a storm.
This is a clip from The Animal Box Office of a wild chameleon in Madagascar changing its vibrant color through all the hues of the rainbow over the course of three minutes. It goes from orange to pink to green to yellow to blue to grey and finally back to
Captured on video by the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s remotely operated submersible SuBastian, this is the first ever video of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural habitat. The juvenile squid was filmed at a depth of 600m in the South Sandwich Islands (I love sandwiches) about 1,100 miles northeast