These are several shots captured by Belgian nature photographer Yves Adams in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands of a rare leucistic king penguin. Leucism is similar to albinism, but results in only a partial reduction in melanin and other pigments, not total. There are a few more shots

Seen here at the site of what is unquestionably a UFO crash, these are two videos created using still images sent to earth from various Mars rovers, all rendered in stunning 4K resolution. Crazy, right? It’s wild to think in our lifetime that we might actually have humans living on

In other realistic face mask news, Japanese artist and mask maker Shuhei Okawara is selling hyperrealistic face masks of his own and other people’s faces (links to his online store). While he never says his intention is to stick it to Big Brother, he does confirm the masks have been

These are several shots and a video of the Filip Skelecaster electric guitar that heavy metal rocker Prince Midnight constructed using his uncle Filip’s skeleton. Filip died in a car accident over twenty years ago, and had previously requested his skeleton be donated to a nearby university, where it educated

This is a short mesmerizing video of chicken wire being made. What a cool piece of specialized machinery. I was so entranced by the time I snapped out of it I’d already watched for twenty-five minutes straight and now my legs are numb and I’m afraid to stand up from

Mother Nature: she can be breathtaking. Case in point: these starling murmurations (swarming behavior) above Geldermasen in the Netherlands filmed at dusk by nature photographer Marco Valk. Why do starlings do this? Let me copy/paste that for you while I wish I had friends to fly with: Grouping together offers

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill painting the entire interior of a room he made out of insulation board with the world’s blackest commercially available paint, Musou black, which absorbs 99.4% of light. He then turns on an overhead light bulb to see what it looks

In cool cats and kittens news, this is a video of caracal kitten Kora at the Wild Cat Conservation Center in New South Wales, Australia demonstrating her absolutely perfect ear flick. Apparently caracals actually use their tufted ears to communicate with each other. And, as someone who just watched the