This is a timelapse video made by Jan van IJken of a newt zygote transforming into a tadpole over the course of six minutes. Of course in real time this would have taken much longer. Probably twenty to thirty minutes. *girlfriend whispers in ear* Okay I’ve just been informed that

This is a video of a group of turtles trying to stay atop a log as it constantly rotates back and forth due to them all moving to compensate because it is constantly rotating back and forth. “Dammit, I was just trying to catch some rays!” I imagine Michelangelo exclaiming

This is a video from Thailand of a large Asian water monitor assumedly trying to make its way to the Slurpee machine at a 7-11. Man, that sucker is HUGE. Could you imagine running into this guy when you’re just popping in to grab a couple jalapeño cream cheese taquitos

Presumably inspired by the ease in which one can slip their foot into a Croc sandal (or possibly the Crocodile Mile I owned growing up), this is a short video captured by a Khurda district Indian Forest Service officer in one of the country’s national parks of a crocodile effortlessly

This is a video of African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata, aka sulcata tortoise) Princess Neferu rubbing herself on a custom made brush system at the Badger Run Wildlife Rehab center in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Some more info while I scratch my own back with my roommate’s toothbrush because he didn’t

This is a super short video of a turtle high-fiving an alligator. Honestly, the gator doesn’t seem too involved in the gesture, its hand just appears to have been in the right place at the right time. I’m also not sure if this technically qualifies as a high-five considering its

Because where there’s a will, there’s a way, Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura has discovered a species of water beetle (Regimbartia attenuata) that, when eaten by a pond frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus), will actually crawl through the frog’s intestinal tract and emerge from its anus, no worse for wear minus being

This is a short video from Thailand of two dogs barking at what appears to be a large Asian water monitor (not a Komodo dragon, but in the same Varanus genus) when the monitor tail-whips the dog on the left when the other is distracted licking its genitals to tell