This is a video captured by wildlife artist Robert E Fuller of a winter murmuration of starlings at dusk at the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England (love your pudding!). Per Robert: “Starling murmurations are one of Britain’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Studies suggest the birds congregate in great swirling masses
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
Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released 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 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
This is a VERY rough timelapse of the lifecycle of a giant owl butterfly as captured in a human hand. The video begins with a tiny egg, proceeds to several stages of caterpillar growth before a chrysalis, and, finally, a butterfly. Man, I can’t wait for my own metamorphosis. It
Assembled by photographer Eirik Solheim using still photographs (and audio) he took of a Norwegian forest from the exact same spot over the course of a year, this is a timelapse video of the seasons changing the landscape as time marches on. And time never stops marching, does it? As
Drone footage shot by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UC Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes off the coast of Santa Barbara, California shows what might be the first ever newborn great white shark captured on film. Some more details about the rare sighting while I fondly remember the original