This is a video of three marmots participating in a mock battle in the middle of the road. Apparently the animals hold these faux fights to better prepare themselves for defense against actual predators. Does it work? Maybe if they can fend off a wolf with a couple light shoves
This is a video from the Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park of a hydrothermal explosion (caused when a quantity of hot water flashes to steam in a confined area) blasting boiling water, rocks, and mud into the air, sending tourists scrambling. The National Park Service has closed the
The culmination of four years of growing plants and capturing the action via timelapse, this is a compilation of some of Youtuber Boxlapse’s favorite grows (mostly fruits and vegetables, but other plants as well). And if you combine all the time each individual plant was grown, the video features 5583
This is some security cam footage from a community park in the St. Louis suburb of Alton featuring a sinkhole opening up beneath an astroturf soccer field and swallowing a light pole, along with about a 100-feet circle of field. Thankfully, the field was not in use at the time
This is a video from Destin of Youtube channel Smarter Every Day detailing how cicadas are able to make such an ungodly racket, filming their noisemakers at 110,000FPS. Basically, male cicadas have special organs on the sides of their thorax called tymbals. When their muscles are flexed, the tymbals’ ribs
This is a video of bird rehabilitator Gary Zammit of Cornwall, England’s Screech Owl Sanctuary and Parkk dressed as a lollipop ghost and feeding an abandoned baby stork with a puppet. That goodness that baby’s eyes are still developing, because that puppet is terrifying. The bird, which was abandoned by
Scientists from The University of Western Australia and Kelpie Geosciences in the UK have captured footage of a rarely seen Dana octopus squid, which features giant bioluminescent headlights on two of its arms. The photophores are some of the largest in the world — about the size of lemons. Damn!
Seen here looking like a deleted scene from Twilight, this is some footage from a trail cam set up by McGill University professor of evolutionary ecology Andrew Hendry, which is spotted by a pack of 15 wolves. The wolves then proceed to investigate the camera and surrounding area to determine