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 a video of Polish stunt pilot Lukasz Czepiela landing a specially modified plane (total weight reduced to 940 pounds, main fuel tank moved to rear for harder braking, plus nitrous added for taking off again) on the 87-foot diameter helipad atop the 56-story Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel

Captured by wildlife photographer Mark Smith, this is a video of an osprey exiting the ocean carrying a barracuda and flapping its ways back into the sky, having emerged from the sea victorious. I can’t even imagine how much energy is required to get airborne again after leaving the water

Captured by wildlife photographer Steve Biro, this shot of Bruce the Bald Eagle flying over the water directly at the camera is almost too perfect to believe it’s real. Such symmetry! And they way his wingtips are just brushing the water’s surface…so majestic. I mean except for that derpy look

This is a video imagining what the retired Concorde jet’s Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) cruising speed, or around 1,350MPH, looks like at ground level. It’s definitely fast, but things really don’t go by as quickly as I thought they would. Now what I really need to see

San Francisco airport has two runways (28L and 28R, which at least to me stand for left and right like I label my shoes) 750-feet apart that run perfectly parallel to each other, at times leading to two planes landing at the same time in what looks like a performance

This is a video of Instagram user its.PilotJohn performing a nosedive to allegedly wake up his female passenger with a little weightlessness. It’s true, I’ve found nothing wakes you up in a hurry quite like thinking you’re about to die. Was she actually asleep though? That’s debatable. A debate you

This is a short video of a young great horned owl spotted by school network administrator Eric Lind at his parents’ house in Eureka, Illinois, that had stolen a child’s toy hobby horse and was flying around the neighborhood with it like a witch on her broomstick. Eric pointed out