The work of artist Thomas Deininger, this is a video of a sculpture of an endangered blue-and-yellow macaw that looks just like the bird from the front, but from the side reveals layers of carefully selected toys and non-recyclable plastic trash. Thomas’s work “thoughtfully addresses environmental concerns and critiques mass
This is Cartoon and Reality, a compilation of cat videos assembled by feline lover Tharoth featuring clips from the cartoon Tom and Jerry followed by similar situations with real-life cats. The paper airplane into the trash can (above) was probably my favorite, but there were some other real goodies in
This is a video from Youtuber Zac Alsop, who teamed up with Hector, who raises bulls in Madrid, Spain for the sport of bull-leaping (an ancient non-violent form of bull-fighting in which participants leap and dive over the charging animals) to see how a real life bull would react in
An unmanned submersible launched by the research vessel EV Nautilus near Papau (southeast of the Philippines) captured some footage of the boat’s namesake on its last underwater exploration of 2024. If there was ever proof that aliens exist, the nautilus makes a pretty solid argument. Just look at that thing!
This is a short Instagram video of a recently hatched Peruvian dragon mantis swaying on a person’s thumb. When full grown, a female dragon mantis can reach lengths up to 5-inches, and males up to 3-inches. Some dragons! It’s hard to believe these things are real, isn’t it? Mother Nature
This is some footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) of Bathydevius caudactylus, aka the mystery mollusc. It lives in the midnight zone (1000 – 4000m) of Monterey Bay, and is recognized as a swimming sea slug. But can it really be a slug if it can swim?
This is a compilation of trail cam footage released by the Voyageurs Wolf Project of wild Canadian lynx wandering the wilderness of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota. What beautiful creatures! I especially like the size of their paws, their pointy ears, and how their coats change during the different
This is a video from informative Youtuber ReYOUniverso imagining if the history of life on earth were packed into a 24 hour period. If that were the case, the first fully formed cells come into existence at 4:30AM, and it takes all the way until 9:34PM for plants to emerge