This is another size comparison video from Global Data (a follow-up to their previously posted video), comparing the actual size of different types of animals, both extinct and extant. Mother Nature sure doesn’t make them like she used to, does she? She used to make them BIG. Now she makes

Because the circle of life is not always a circle, this is a video captured by Kruger National Park field guide Mfundo Nyambi and a group of tourists featuring two porcupine parents successfully defending their young from a hungry leopard. The leopard gets quilled several times trying to make a

This is a video created by visual effects artist Wren of Corridor Digital imagining all the world’s estimated 20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000 or 20,000 trillion) ants in the same place at the same time. All standing flat they would cover approximately 225,000 square kilometers, or the size of Wisconsin. In a

To provide a calm respite from this chaotic world, here’s is a video of a sloth living the dream and lounging in a woven hanging chair at the Chase Wildlife Conservancy (previously: their anteater’s tongue) in Webster, Florida. I needed that. I was pretty anxious before, but now I’m as

Seen here looking more like a cartoon than an actual animal, a northern tamandua (aka lesser anteater) named Otis extends his full tongue after being woken at the Chase Wildlife Conservancy in Florida. Now that’s one hell of a tongue! My girlfriend can touch her nose with her tongue and

Captured by drone flier Joshua Turner, this is some first person POV footage of summiting the Matterhorn in the Alps, flying along the Hörnli Ridge (the standard human route up the mountain) all the way to the very top. That’s cool, I guess I can go ahead and cross ‘Summit

These are several shots and a video of the removal of 700 pounds of acorns that a pair of acorn woodpecker stashed in the wall of a Santa Rosa, California home. Nick Castro of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control was actually inspecting for mealworms when he discovered the nut hoard, and

Captured by wildlife photographer Steve Biro, this shot of Bruce the Bald Eagle flying over the water directly at the camera is almost too perfect to believe it’s real. Such symmetry! And they way his wingtips are just brushing the water’s surface…so majestic. I mean except for that derpy look