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
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
This is a video of a real life Pokemon clinging to some dude’s back. Based on its incredibly unusual body and cartoony eyes, I assumed it was fake at first, but no — it’s a Sunda flying lemur. How about that! The natural world, am I right? It would be
Aliens: they are among us. Case in point, this footage of a transparent-headed deep sea barreleye (Macropinna microstoma, aka spook fish) captured by the unmanned rover Ventana as researchers searched for jellyfish. According to scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, they’ve logged over 5,600 dives and over 27,600
Seen here looking so out-of-this-world you’d have a hard time convincing me it’s AncestryDNA results didn’t come back 100% alien, this is a video from the remotely operate vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts of a giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, at a depth of 3,200-feet. Some
This is a video captured near the Tandayapa Bird Lodge in Tandayapa, Ecuador of an army ant death spiral (aka ant mill). What the hell is an army ant death spiral besides a kickass name for a metal band? Let me copy/paste that for you while I spin in my
This is a video from Youtuber Ant Lab (but these are moths!) of seven different species of moth taking flight filmed in 6,000FPS ultra slow motion. Glorious, aren’t they? The species in order in case you’re not a lepidopterist and know already: 00:00 – Rosy maple moth, 01:01 – Polyphemus
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