These are the almost certainly unlicensed ‘Very Long Pikachu Insect Plushes’ available from Chinese online retailer AliExpress. They cost between $21 and $90 depending on length (available in 80cm, 1.1m, 1.4m and 1.7m varieties), and seeing one (or, even worse, one of every length) on a potential lover’s bed, is

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill painting the entire interior of a room he made out of insulation board with the world’s blackest commercially available paint, Musou black, which absorbs 99.4% of light. He then turns on an overhead light bulb to see what it looks

Captured in the Ecuadorian rain forest by wildlife photographer and videographer David Weiller, this is a video of a monkey slug caterpillar (the larval stage of a hag moth), which is neither monkey nor slug but is a caterpillar, and mimics a tarantula so things don’t try to eat it.

This is a video of 19-year old University Of Lincoln student Aoife Mcmorrow, who accidentally uploaded a portfolio video assignment to her instructor in 360-degree view, making her look like a giant potato head. She also submitted the video less than 24 hours before the deadline, and there’s a 24

In what appears to be an incredibly misguided attempt to wish us all a happier new year, this is a video just released by Boston Dynamics of its army of death-bots all dancing to The Contours’ 1962 banger ‘Do You Love Me’. You really just have to see it to

Mother Nature: she’s totally wild. I remember one time after a night of drinking we *vine immediately erupts from ground, wraps around leg* no? Not a good story to tell? This is a video of a fallen tree absolutely pouring water when cut with a chainsaw. Some more info while

I’m sure this has been documented countless times, but the process of metamorphosis never ceases to amaze me. I remember in first grade we had a monarch butterfly kit in the classroom and watched them morph from caterpillars to chrysalises (did you know when a monarch caterpillar is hanging upside

Since under the sea never fails to deliver the freaky deaky, this is a video from a diver exploring the waters off Gozo, Malta, who happened to swim across this transparent fish-like creature. In the diver’s own words while I call Ariel pretending to be King Triton, who got hit