Presumably as a distraction while all its arachnid friends break into the home seen in the background (Remember: we’re here for all the shoes!), this is a video of a spider weaving a web right in front of a Ring home security cam. I watched the whole thing, but the

This is a video of paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic discussing the unique physiology of the red-lipped batfish. Not to be confused with a batman, this multi-species named mutant has a beard, bioluminescent horn, and little front leg-fins it uses to walk along the bottom of the seafloor. See? Nothing

This is a short video from a vacationer in Playa del Carmen of a monkey doing its best human impression to walk into a hotel and steal a cookie from the buffet. Now that is some good posture. If I had posture like that maybe I wouldn’t have all this

These are a couple videos of a LinkerBot Linker Hand L30 demonstrating its quickness by screwing a variety of nuts and bolts at lightning speed. It’s like a cordless screwdriver…but a hand. Talk about fingers of fury! Is this a pleasure model? If it isn’t already, it will be soon.

This is a video demonstration of the Roadrunner bipedal robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute. The 33-pound robot looks like a pair of dismembered robotic legs with wheels for feet, presumably because that’s exactly what it is. It can roll around with its wheels oriented straight ahead or

Because who doesn’t wish they were more feline (I’d love to just sleep all day and knock things off tables), these are several shots of the cat claw inspired nails crafted by Jane of 2hi4dis.nails, complete with fleshy quicks. She even provides a video tutorial (2nd video below) if you

This is Ze Frank’s ‘True Facts: The Science of the Praying Mantis’, an incredibly in-depth look at the lives of praying mantises, discussing everything you’ve ever wanted (and not wanted) to know about them. Not to brag about my own amateur entomology or anything, but most of this stuff I

This is a 1000x magnification of tardigrades (aka waterbears) hatching. The mother tardigrade produces the eggs then sheds her skin with the eggs inside, which are protected until hatching. They’re also trapped and have to find their way out of the skin or die. The whole hatching process takes about