This is a video from Festo (not be confused with Fisto, the Protectron robot found in Fallout: New Vegas that you can mod into a pleasure bot) of their latest generation of BionicSwifts, robotic birds that fly using the same mechanics as real birds. According to Festo, the latest BionicSwifts

This is a video from Youtuber A V of an acrylic three-chamber red wiggler worm composting bin with a different material in each chamber: leaves, cardboard, and paper. Water (in the form of ice) and grit (in the form of pulverized eggshell) are added occasionally, and more of each material

Because the One Ring isn’t going to destroy itself, these are several videos captured by drone pilot Björn Steinbekk flying over the currently active Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, as it erupts for the first time in over 6,000 years. Wow! Did you see Frodo and the gang? Because I zoomed

This is a video of a spiny flower mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi, aka the target mantis due to the large eyespots on its forewings) performing a 7-minute defensive dance to let a presumed threat (in this case the cameraman) know that it will fight you, and it will tear you limb-from-limb

These are several shots and a video of a leucistic raccoon (previously: a leucistic penguin) taken by photographer Kendra Smith outside her home that she submitted to the Oregon Department Of Fish And Wildlife. What makes it leucistic instead of albino? Because it doesn’t lack all pigment, hence its black

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s macro footage M&M’s melting in water comes another video from Youtube channel Another Perspective, this time some macro timelapse footage of tiny stink bugs hatching. They look so cute! Almost like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie. Speaking of stink bugs — they

In a case of life imitating life, this is a photo and video captured by photographer James Crombie of a murmuration of starlings creating the shape of a giant bird. How about that! Does it only look like a bird from this angle, or would it look like a bird’s

Because as luck would have it, when nature calls, you’re stuck on a broken chair lift, this is a video from a Canadian ski resort where a dude trapped on the lift really needs to pee. He asks the ski patroller that comes to check on he and his buddy