While diving with manta rays in Garden Eel Cove off the coast of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, co-founder and vice president of Manta Pacific Research Foundation Keller Laros encountered a troubled bottlenose dolphin — somehow the poor cetacean got its left pectoral fin snagged by a fishing hook. Thankfully, Laros and his crew were there to give a helping… Read More

Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself. “Standing as the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments, I… Read More

Contemporary artists have discovered that street art is not only beautiful to look at, but that it can also be soft and smooth to the touch. Moss graffiti is eco-friendly as it doesn’t use any aerosols; what the “painting” needs is just a dash of water to thrive. Here is a recipe for how to… Read More

This ruling sets a precedent for all future cases, and could mean the end of captivity An orangutan named Sandra has been granted the status of ‘non-human person’ in a landmark case that could potentially spell the end for keeping wild animals in captivity. Sandra has lived in a zoo in Buenos Aires for the… Read More

You might have seen killer whales hunt like this, but probably not catfish. French researchers at the University of Toulouse captured this video of catfish hunting pigeons on the shore of the Tarn River in southwest France. The filmmakers were able to get an incredible aerial view of catfish briefly beaching themselves to grab the… Read More

I had a pet bird growing up, and I could always count on him for a hearty laugh. There’s something about birds that make them the goofiest animal of all — and I love pretty much every internet video that features our feathered friends. Here, we meet two birds of a feather — Jonathan and… Read More

The Catatumbo Lightning has helped sailors, thwarted invasions and wowed onlookers for thousands of years, thanks to a recurring thunderstorm that can spark up to 40,000 lightning strikes in one night There is a place on Earth where an “everlasting storm” appears almost every night, averaging 28 lightning strikes per minute for up to 10 hours at… Read More

Illegal loggers at the frontier of the Peruvian and Brazilian border have mistakenly cut down what experts claim is the world’s oldest tree after allegedly not noticing they were logging deeply in Matsés Indigenous Reserve, an area where logging is illegal, infuriating local conservation organizations and native indigenous communities. The giant Samauma tree that is thought to be over 5,800 years… Read More

All you need is a pool, a plate, and some food color. Physics girl does an experiment that cause weird black circles to form just be dragging a plate through a pool. On a nice clear sunny day you can see the black circle vortex travel through the whole pool. How does this happen? Watch… Read More