This is a short video of a squid making an almost unbelievable color change when removed from the water, turning from a dark black to nearly transparent in the blink of an eye, then turning back to black just as quickly when its returned to the water. Mother Nature, am

Because Mother Nature is freakier than four dudes in a two-man horse costume, this is a video captured by nature photographer David Weiller of a giant red millipede traversing a branch in Madagascar’s Marojejy National Park. Just look at all those legs — there’s like 160+! For reference, I only

This is a video of nature lover and photographer Mark Bowler getting up close and personal with a snake-mimic caterpillar (Hemeroplanes triptolemus), which has evolved an ass that looks like the head of a venomous pit viper in order to avoid predation. I’d say that works. I’m not even interested

This is a video captured by an unmanned rover operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) featuring a previously unseen species of crown (Atolla) jellyfish. Crown jellyfish my ass — somebody call Samus! This particular metroid lives at depths between 3,323 to 10,463 feet (or about 2 to

This is a short video of three cats frozen in battle over a dead bird on a rooftop. If they didn’t move at the end I would have assumed this was just a Renaissance painting. Love those things. Especially the tasteful nudes. Those alabaster boobs — painted almost as if

Because Mother Nature never ceases to shock and awe move and inspire, this is a video of a visitor at Zuroloma Birding in Pichincha, Ecuador handfeeding several birds, including a masked flowerpiercer (the blue bird with red eyes), and a sword-billed hummingbird. Look at the beak on that thing! You

I’m sure by now you’re all familiar with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, right? Giant kinetic moving sculptures that convert wind energy into movement, usually in the form of tens of walking legs? Well now Theo has introduced Strandbeest Evolution 2021, a new line of beests, some of which can take to

Because I’m not really sure why, but there’s definitely no excuse for it, this is a video of ‘The Prayer’, a robotic mouth developed by conceptual scientist Diemut Strebe at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology that endlessly sings AI-generated prayers. It was developed “to explore the possibilities of