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

Note: Lots of appropriate cursing, baby with a knife. This is a video of a mother giving her baby a fake plastic knife to go terrorize other family members in its wheeled baby walker. They all respond about how you’d expect — with an expletive and immediately disarming the tyke.

Note: Audio on for max chirpy chirping. This is a short in-nest video of a tawny owl that has had her two infertile eggs replaced with two orphaned hatchlings to raise. She seems STOKED. Me? That sounds like a lot of responsibility. I have a hard enough time keeping my

Because expecting parents remain determined to showcase the gender of their child in extreme ways (presumably in an attempt to get anybody but themselves and the grandparents to care — I’m just here for the bottomless mimosas and goodie bag), this is a video of an over-the-top gender reveal that

Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released back

This is a compilation of jump cuts created by bug lover and Instagram user bughaus_adi of insect eggs, and the full grown insects that they develop into. There is also a series of juvenile insects vs adult insects. Those orchid mantises are wild. That spider too. I did warn you

Drone footage shot by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UC Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes off the coast of Santa Barbara, California shows what might be the first ever newborn great white shark captured on film. Some more details about the rare sighting while I fondly remember the original

Reminding me a lot of myself after work with my dogs, this is a video from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, China, of a recent panda mother cuddling her cub before the cub is given a vet checkup. Precious moments. Way more precious than the