This is a video of several snapping and mantis shrimps snapping/boxing filmed at 11,000 frames/second and producing cavitation bubbles (created when the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid’s vapor pressure, leading to the formation of small vapor-filled “bubbles” in the liquid). Even filmed at such high
Presumably a group therapy session to promote healing from all the ill will shown toward them throughout the years, this is a video of 25 Furbies all having a conversation. What are they saying? No clue, but I assume it involves overthrowing humanity. Can’t say I blame them *minimizes ‘overthrow
This is a video highlighting the life of Janus, the world’s oldest two-headed tortoise, who just celebrated 25 years on the planet. Janus is actually almost two whole tortoises in one, with all internal organs duplicated except the small and large intestines, bladder, and kidney. Damn, happy 25th birthday! Of
These are a couple videos of artist Leandro Erlich’s ‘Seeing Is Not Believing’ exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. This particular piece involves a building facade the ground, with a giant mirror tilted above it at a 45-degree angle, so, when viewed in the mirror, visitors
This is a video of an African jacana father gathering his chicks to move away from a hungry crocodile by letting them climb up under his wings, giving himself the appearance of a mutant bird with a bunch of extra legs in the process. Those aren’t his legs though, those
In other rare under the sea news, this is some footage of an elusive box jellyfish (Chirodectes maculatus), a species that has only been recorded once previously. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I 100% agree — it looks like somebody doodled all over it with a Sharpie. And
This is a video of a bird snacking on some delicious wasps that decided to build a nest against near a screen door, when the bird decides enough already with the appetizers, it’s time for the entree, and takes off with the entire nest they were building. Granted it isn’t
This is a video captured by an unmanned submersible operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Exploration team featuring a whiplash squid swimming in ‘marine snow’ at a depth of around 1,100 meters (3,609-feet, about 7/10ths of a mile). It’s not actually snow though, it’s delicious, nutritious