This is a video of a robotic spy octopus designed to infiltrate the octopus community and learn its secrets providing a real coconut octopus with a coconut half to cap off the end of the bamboo shoot its hiding in. The footage is pretty remarkable, but this is obviously staged
This is a video of a pet flying squirrel playing dead for attention. Or possibly to not get in trouble for knocking over the broom. Whatever the case, that flying squirrel is a great actor — very committed to the part. It should start its own acting school, with a
Having previously spotted a red balloon squid, this is a video from the ROV Hercules chancing upon a rarely seen Bathykorus jellyfish, that resembles a facehugger from the Alien franchise. This is only the second time the jellyfish has been caught on film, the first being in 2015. That’s cool,
This is a video highlighting diver Rex Colubra’s special relationship with Elvis, a smallmouth bass he befriended while on a dive one day. Elvis loves Rex so much that he even chases other fish away when Rex is in the water so he can have him all to himself. Rex
Because everybody needs a hobby and the best hobbies require only a decent pair of shoes and a devil-may-care attitude, this is a video of UK freerunner Max Webb performing a corkscrew jump from a rooftop to a tiny ledge across the alley. That’s wild. Even wilder? That his friends
This is a video from a Dallas, Texas highway of a dual tire rolling and bouncing down the road, trying to leap a dividing wall and failing, then ending up STUCK UNDER THE TRUCK RIGHT NEXT TO THE AXLE IT CAME OFF OF. What are the odds?! Low — the
This is a video from CUT of 100 different people trying to describe how they flirt. From what I gathered watching, it’s amazing any of them are in relationships, because they are not very good at it. It seems like a lot of them do more blurting than flirting, which
This is in image of a leaf sea slug (Costasiella kuroshimae) captured by underwater photographer Alex Mustard, revealing its uncanny resemblance to Shaun The Sheep. I mean minus the peacock feathers. Honestly, I think it’s just the face. Some more info from Alex, including the animals deceptively diminutive size: My