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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 […]

Very weird: Monsterous Kappa rises from the river

January 9, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2pzuKyEVgA A Kappa is a Japanese water goblin or demon. It’s name means River-child and a local would describe it as a Yokai. This Kappa is at home in the pond at Tsujikawayama Park near Fukusaki in Hyogo Prefecture. The head of the beast is important; Kappa’s have power while their hairless patch is filled […]

Why do rivers have bends in them?

November 21, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Rivers that run down from mountains tend to run straight so why is it that rivers start to form curves and bend once they hit flat ground? Is it possible for a river to meet itself as it bends or even get stuck in a loop? This video from MinuteEarth explores. In Pure Spirit Are […]

How wolves in Yellowstone park changed rivers for the better

February 19, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Wolves have been reintroduced to Yellowstone park in America. It was a controversial move. Not everyone wanted them. As it turns out the return of the wolves triggered some trophic cascades. Trophic cascade is a process that starts at the top of the food chain and reaches down the way. Wolves hunted the deer. That […]

Is this video evidence of a weird monster in the Mekong River?

December 2, 2013 by Andrew 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npNUZ-3KUEw Is this the Mekong Monster? The Mekong is a large river; the 7th-longest in Asia that crawls into Thailand where this video was filmed. The name comes from “Mae Man Khong, a term similar in Thai and Lao, which means mother river or mother water. Only the Amazon has more animals per cubic foot […]

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