Despite being perhaps the most recognisable animal on the planet, biologists have been puzzled for centuries over how the zebra got its stripes. But scientists have worked out an answer, and it’s nothing to do with camouflaging themselves in long grass. More »
I never used to be scared of tortoises. I mean, if ever there was a creature I could be reasonably confident I could outrun, it was a tortoise. This time lapse video of a tortoise has me kind of concerned, though. More »
I just came across this clip from Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World (2007). What you can hear in it is fascinating: the sound of seals in the Antarctic are like nothing you could have imagined. More »
You know the economy is really going to bloody hell when ATMs start to pay bank customers with dead rodents, which is exactly what happen to Gholam Hafezi, the guy in this photo. He got his cash and dead Mickey here. More »
The camera work, scenery and tone are fantastic, but there’s something incredibly unsettling about a giant anthropomorphic panda roaming a post-apocalyptic world with a machete he doesn’t plan to harvest bamboo with. More »
I’ve always wondered what the world looks like from a dog’s point of view. After watching this video, now I know. Kelsey Wynn outfitted his Great Dane, Bishop, with a GoPro and took him to the dog park to play. You get to see everything Bishop’s see and it looks so freaking fun. More »
Marijuana farmers tried it with bears, and now a parks and recreation department in Wales wants to do it with bees: critters as cheap security. More »
Birds have always fascinated humans. Their flight has inspired writers, artists and engineers to create poems, legends, novels, aeroplanes and superheroes. The new BBC documentary Earthflight captures this fascination in a way that nobody has before. It’s awesome. More »
I’ve always assumed that animals gradually become endangered over a long periods of time, like many decades. But I was totally wrong: a bat species that once swarmed caves in North America has lurched towards extinction in just six years. More »
I will, at some stage, stop posting about tiny critters. But not today. No, today we’re looking at this itty-bitty frog species, Amauensis, a part of the newly described genus Paedophryne. The average body size of the species is 7.7mm, which is about 60 per cent smaller than a five-cent coin. More »
