Kallima inachus (aka orange oakleaf, Indian oakleaf, or dead leaf) is a species of butterfly native to Tropical Asia that almost perfectly resembles a dead leaf when its wings are closed. With its wings open though it reveals beautiful oranges and iridescent purple and blue. Mother Nature: she’s a wild

This is a short clip of a jumping spider approaching a house fly, determining which way it will take off (SPOILER: forwards), then grabbing it out of the air as soon as it does. Impressive. Of course the right way to take off would have been as soon as it

Because what else is there to do in the Antarctic besides trying to avoid being eaten by orcas, this is a video of a leopard seal singing its beautiful song on an iceberg. Wow, I can see now why pirates must have mistook them for mermaids. Ahooga! “What is wrong

This is a video from the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa of a troop of baboons avoiding a pride of lions by hiding underneath the bridge the lions are traveling across. Smart. Me? I hide from lions by living 10,200 miles away from most of them. It’s been

Deciding to eat on the go this morning instead of taking its meal somewhere to nipple on and people watch, this is a video of a bald eagle grabbing a small fish from the water, then eating it just a moment later in mid-air. Impressive. For reference, I don’t like

Seen here looking like there’s no way you can tell me that’s not an alien (it looks just like Boba Fett’s ship!), a rarely seen orange Dumbo octopus is filmed by the unmanned undersea rover E/V Nautilus. The octopus was captured casually cruising along all by its lonesome at a

This is a video of two black-headed seagulls pushing another off a railing, then laughing about it together. It looks like a scene straight out of a Pixar movie. It’s not though, it’s real life. An unfortunate life for that bird being bullied. Hopefully it found some french fries and

This is a video of a mother moose (not to be confused with Mother Goose, who would be far less effective at scaring away a bear) repeatedly treeing a black bear nearing her calves. Moose: they’re huge and you don’t want to mess with them. They’re not deer, you can’t