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

Because scientists are determined to make DNA hacking the way of the future whether you refuse to eat GMO corn or not, ‘synthetic biology startup’ Light Bio has created Firefly Petunias, flowers infused with the DNA of bioluminescent mushrooms so they glow in the dark. And the USDA has just

In what is arguable the most exciting thing to come out of Montana since the dinosaurs, this is a video of a gang of tumbleweeds that attacked a neighborhood in Great Falls, piling up against houses trying to get in. Quick — lock the doors and bar the windows, honey,

This is a beautiful timelapse video captured by BoxLapse of a yellow habanero pepper plant growing over the course of 165 days, beginning as just a tiny seed. Things take almost a month to really start going, but by two months its growing strong, and by 168 days, TA-DA! —

These are a couple videos from scientist Adrian Smith of Ant Lab discussing and documenting the work of leafcutter ants cutting the petals off a rose, as well as carving up a bunch of leaves, all to feed to their fungus garden back home. The first video is short and

Because dream it (and with enough know-how, money, and luck), you can achieve it, this is a video of Youtuber Ideal Idea constructing an icosahedron (20-sided polygon) infinity mirror terrarium. How about that! No matter where you look it’s green with plant life! Me? I’m a huge fan of terrariums

Created by photographer Brett Foxwell of bfophoto using 12,000 leaves he collected and pressed, this is a stop motion animation of a leaf morphing shape and color over the course of two and a half minutes. Organizing all those leaf photos into a fluid animation must have been quite the

Because plants are much more dynamic than a lot of people give them credit for, this is a timelapse video of group of tropical houseplants (I could name them all if you want me to) moving over the course of 24 hours. Look at them go! One minute they’re there,