This is a visualization created by Global Data comparing the sizes of various flying creatures both extinct and extant, but mostly extinct because Mother Nature made all the wildest models back in the day. Don’t get wrong, she’s still got some pretty crazy designs in existence, but she’s definitely grown

This is some rare drone footage of a North Atlantic right whale nursing and bonding with its calf in the waters of Cape Cod Bay. Now I don’t know about you, but it still boggles my mind that whales have nipples. Granted they’re not traditional external nipples but enclosed in

This is a video of alligator behavioral expert Chris Gillette of Youtube channel Florida’s Wildest calmly feeding the rescue alligators at the Everglades Outpost in Ocala, Florida while discussing alligator behavior and human safety. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that I could totally whisper to alligators just

These are several videos of the staff of the Oakdale Veterinary Group in California allowing their dogs (including resident dog Mowgli) to walk and run through the wet cement sidewalk outside their newly constructed clinic to immortalize their paw prints. I think everyone can all agree that is super sweet.

To celebrate his birthday, Moose the chocolate lab had some friends over to the park to bark and chase each other and his owner Hannah Helsel made him a pinata that opens with the pull of a dangling tennis ball, and is filled with even MORE tennis balls. Dogs love

Because I’m sure “What did woolly mammoth taste like?” is the question on everyone’s minds, Australian cultured meat startup Vow has created a “mammoth meatball,” growing the meat using long-extinct mastodon DNA. That’s…something. Something I’m sure will be popping up on the menus at only the most exclusive restaurants. Or,

This is a video from the breakfast room at Nairobi’s Giraffe Manor Hotel of two giraffes popping their heads through the windows (specifically designed for this) to see if any of the guests happened to leave food for them. I remember the first time I heard about the Giraffe Manor

This is a compilation video of cats working out. Or, in some cases, at least looking like they’re exercising. My cats? My cats don’t ever look like they’re exercising, except EXERCISING MY LAST NERVE. Just kidding, they’re perfect in every way. Except for the turds in the bathtub this morning.