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Incredible footage of wolves running on a Canadian highway

April 13, 2020 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Have you ever been that close to such majestic hunters in the wild?

Why is it starting to rain octopus?

June 18, 2018 by Andrew Leave a Comment

As a freak storm battled the Chinese city of Qingdao social media began to buzz with the term ‘Seafood Rain’. Why? It was raining octopuses, starfish and molluscs. The bizarre storm featured winds as fast as 78mph and rain heavy enough to shatter windows. The weather in the Yellow Sea created waterspouts. This octopus storm […]

For a second the sand looks normal…

June 6, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Watch as thousands of clams emerge from the damp sands in Topsail Island, NC. These are conquina clams and respond to the incoming waves. They’ll eat tiny plans and even animals that exist in the Atlantic waters. All along the beach, for miles and miles, these calms emerge at once to the same triggers and […]

Chinese New Year 2016: What does the Year of the Monkey mean?

January 24, 2016 by Geist Escrigui 1 Comment

With the advent of 2016, the Chinese New Year is almost beginning and in tandem with the Chinese zodiac, it is the Monkey’s Year. It is set to start on Monday, 8th February. If this year is to be the Year of the Monkey what does that mean? The Chinese Zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is […]

Watch in awe as piranhas feed in a frenzy

January 16, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This footage was shot in Brazil. You can see the locals throwing dirty slabs of meat in between those fragile looking boats. The result? Chaos! With each throw the feeding piranhas get more and more violent. You can see entire fish leaving the water as they flip back and forth in a frenzy while latched […]

Strange ants demonstrate the invisible power of our smartphones

October 28, 2015 by Andrew 1 Comment

The video starts off with an iPhone sitting right in the middle of a stream of ants. There’s about 300 making their way around the device. You’ll see what happens when the phone starts to ring. The ants form into a circle and make their way anti-clockwise around the device. Ants navigate with sigh but […]

The weird ant that uses acid to shield itself from enemy venom

January 29, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

In this odd video from the New Scientist we encounter the tawny crazy ant. This ant successfully takes on the dread fire ant. How? The invasive fire ants have been doing lots of harm to southern American states since they arrived there in 1930. Their sting is powerful enough to kill small animals and no […]

North Carolina beach complete with a shark feeding frenzy

January 10, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

If you’re just walking along the sand, the breaking waves washing against your feet would you end up in the middle of a shark feeding frenzy? You could. This video shows the shore of a beach in North Carolina host more than 100 sharks. The sharks were caught in a feeding frenzy, chomping their way […]

Incredible! These smart birds have figured out how to open doors

January 5, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This is something out of a spooky Alfred Hitchcock movie. This pair of nesting Swallows have reacted to new, heavy but automatic doors being installed in an underground bike park by learning how to open them. The birds flutter in front of the sensors until they’re detected by the system and the doors open in […]

This is what a 4-acre spider web looks like!

November 4, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This photograph belongs to the Entomological Society of America; Greene and others and was shown by Wired.com. It’s a 4-acre spider web. It’ll come as no surprise that when the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Planet discovered this web back in 2009 that they had to call for help. Scientists estimated there were over 107,000,000 spiders living […]

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