This is a 48-second timelapse video of a Mexican Flame Knee tarantula (Brachypelma auratum) molting over the course of three hours. It’s crazy how they lay on their backs like that to molt. They must be really vulnerable during that time. I mean I still wouldn’t mess with one, but

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 video from a vacationer on Useppa Island, Florida who found a squid on the dock he believes was dropped by one of the ospreys nesting nearby, and captured this footage of its color-changing chromatophores before returning it to the ocean. Pretty wild, right? I wish I could

Because apparently some people don’t subscribe to the whole ‘the world is my toilet’ lifestyle, this is a public restroom with a glass floor and window to the river outside. How about that! The sound of that water rushing by would probably make going to the bathroom easy-peesy. Get it?

This is a short video captured by zoologist and wildlife photographer Dani Conner Wild (appropriate last name) of the sounds a seven-week old red squirrel makes while snacking on a nut. The squirrel is actually one of four babies that Dani cares for in the wild after their mother was

These are several satellite images (plus an embedded Google map) “of the northwestern coast of Madagascar where the saline waters of the Mozambique Channel join with the freshwater running through the Betsiboka River to make Bombetoka Bay.”  As you can see, the area looks like a giant octopus.  At least

This is a clip from BBC’s ‘Spy In The Wild’ starring a robotic spy pig built by the folks at John Downer Productions in order to capture some up close and personal footage of Komodo dragons.  Unsurprisingly, by the end of the video the dragons are trying to eat the