This is some footage of a rarely seen sun candle (aka subsun), an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight is reflected off flat ice crystals in the atmosphere and appear as a beam resembling a giant candle flame. Are we sure that’s what it is though? Because I really think

Drone footage shot by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UC Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes off the coast of Santa Barbara, California shows what might be the first ever newborn great white shark captured on film. Some more details about the rare sighting while I fondly remember the original

Set up by the University of Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project, a trailcam recently captured footage of a rare black wolf in the area. According to the International Wolf Center (which is a real thing that exists, unlike the International Cougar Database I wish existed when I was still young and

This is a video documenting the rarely heard sounds of a mangrove whipray and cowtail stingray in the wild. I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t know stingrays even made sounds. They’re sort of clicks. I wonder what they’re saying. Because at least in my mind they’re apologizing for

This is some rare footage of a small (bell diameter ~1.1-inches) psychedelic jelly (Crossota millsae) spotted by one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s robotic deep sea rovers in the midnight zone, the absolutely pitch black area of the sea from a depth of around 3,500-feet downward. Just look

Seen here looking so out-of-this-world you’d have a hard time convincing me it’s AncestryDNA results didn’t come back 100% alien, this is a video from the remotely operate vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts of a giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, at a depth of 3,200-feet. Some

This is a video from a Maine lobsterman (a man who catches lobsters, not Lobsterman the superhero) of an ultra-rare ‘cotton candy’ colored lobster. Buttered cotton candy? Gross! According to the folks at direct-to-consumer seafood company Get Maine Lobster (a totally reliable source), they estimate the genetic anomaly could occur

This is a shot of German angler Martin Glatz and the rare, all yellow leucistic catfish he caught in a Netherlands lake. For those of you unfamiliar, leucism is similar to albinism, but the animals still have some pigment, as opposed to an albino’s complete lack of color. How about