Scientists from The University of Western Australia and Kelpie Geosciences in the UK have captured footage of a rarely seen Dana octopus squid, which features giant bioluminescent headlights on two of its arms. The photophores are some of the largest in the world — about the size of lemons. Damn!
This is a clip from the television series How It’s Made detailing how mannequins, marionnettes, crash test dummies, and other humanlike replicas are made. SPOILER: Not in any way that should make somebody want to have sex with them, yet you know it’s going to happen. It’s probably happening right
This is a short video of barrel racer Mikayla Murphy’s horse Ginger laying eyes on a zebra for the first time. It looks shocked. Love at first sight? That’s my guess, but I’m also a terrible guesser and haven’t even come close to hitting the lotto yet. Like, not even
This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
This is some footage from a manned research submarine investigating the life around a methane seep off the coast of Costa Rica when it encountered a new species (Pectinereis strickrotti) of deep sea worm, that appear to swim almost as if they’re magic carpets. Freaky! Per submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott,
This is a visual comparison of increasingly larger fish, from the diminutive 1cm Paedocypris progenetica to the 30m blue whale. The video begins using a grasshopper for scale before moving to a bunny, and finally, humans. There are some big fish out there! Me? I’m neither the smallest nor the
This is a compilation of jump cuts created by bug lover and Instagram user bughaus_adi of insect eggs, and the full grown insects that they develop into. There is also a series of juvenile insects vs adult insects. Those orchid mantises are wild. That spider too. I did warn you