This is a video of an orchid mantis nymph (I’ve caught a bunch in Animal Crossing) eating a fly that was dumb enough to walk all over the mantis assuming it wasn’t a threat. I mean at one point you can actually see it sucking on the mantis’s arm and
This is a timelapse video of an icebreaker’s journey around Antarctica, with about two months worth of travel packed into five minutes, along with some commentary about the trip from the woman who captured the footage. Wow, two months on an icebreaker in Antarctica, that *checking list of good times*
Seen here looking like a man who was recently groomed by a tornado, this is a video from ‘extreme storm chaser’Aaron Jayjack of a tornado touching down in Scarth, Manitoba, Canada. Pretty cool footage, but shouldn’t he have filmed himself riding it to Oz? I mean can he even confidently
In precious moments news, this is a short video of a group of baby ducks running across the lily pads in a pond. Such sweet, sweet little angels aren’t they? It’s crazy to think that when I took a trip to the pond when I was like five their great-great-great-great-great
This is a video captured by a hiker on Mount Rainer in Washington of a bear that approached an unaware man laying half in and half out of his tent when the bear takes a liking to the man’s shoes and allegedly tries to take a bite out of one,
This is a 48-second timelapse video of a Mexican Flame Knee tarantula (Brachypelma auratum) molting over the course of three hours. It’s crazy how they lay on their backs like that to molt. They must be really vulnerable during that time. I mean I still wouldn’t mess with one, but
Because where there’s a will, there’s a way, Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura has discovered a species of water beetle (Regimbartia attenuata) that, when eaten by a pond frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus), will actually crawl through the frog’s intestinal tract and emerge from its anus, no worse for wear minus being
This is a short video of a West Des Moines, Iowa man who discovered a hornet’s nest behind his car’s gas tank door when going to fill up his tank. In his own very colorful language: “I, uh, I was going to go to fill my gas tank up and…[trying