158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.

This is a video of paraglider Ulvi Ercan experiencing a “60 percent asymmetrical collapse” while gliding and losing his GoPro in the process, which captures its fall from 1,100 meters safely to the ground below. Of course it landed in soft grass and not on a boulder, which I’m sure

Athena, a shephard husky mix in Florida escaped her crate, ditched her collar, and was on the lam for over a week before returning home on her own, ringing the video doorbell to be let in on Christmas Eve. Classic dog, coming back for the milk and cookies. She roamed

This is a video from a thermal imaging drone that was used to help locate Chibs, a golden retriever that had gone missing from his family’s home in Coventry, Rhode Island for 16 days. The drone camera was volunteered by Andre Rocke, owner of Four K Videos. Some more info,

This is a video highlighting the life of Murphy, an injured bald eagle that lives that the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri. The 31-year old(!) recently started nurturing and trying to hatch a rock he found in his enclosure, so when an orphaned bald eagle was brought to

In heartwarming news, the Adams County SPCA of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania successfully adopted out all their dogs and reunited all lost dogs with their owners for the first time in 47 years, leaving a completely empty kennel. That is fantastic news, and I would have adopted one of those dogs myself

Edited together by Casper Langbak of CLS Videos, this is an emotive supercut of the closing shots from 120 different movies, artfully arranged and set to Kate Bush’s ‘Cloudbursting’. Well, I guess I don’t have to watch any of those 120 movies that I haven’t seen already. If you’re interested

This is a video highlighting the lives of Otter and Bunny, who were adopted by Caroline Grace of Baby Kitten Rescue after they were abandoned by their mother. Both cats have underdeveloped front legs that end around the elbows, but Otter also has a hole in his skull and needs