Topic: nature
‘Darkness Is My Canvas, Light Is My Brush’
Light painter Hannu Huhtamo uses darkness as a canvas for his long exposure photographs, capturing fluid light trails of flashlights and other kinds of glowing tools that he uses to draw in the air. In this video from...
A Baby Nine-Banded Armadillo found in a yard in Texas
A baby nine-banded armadillo, introduced by the Texan who found him in the garden and then released him farther afield! Nine-banded armadillos are generally insectivores. They forage for m...
A Bird Ballet: A murmuration of starlings over Marseille, France
Filmed against the sunset skies of Marseille, France, A Bird Ballet is a moment with a flock of (what we assume are) quickly-shifting starlings, caught by filmmakers Neels Castillon and Mathias Touzeris a...
A Black Swallowtail Butterfly comes out of its chrysalis
A Black Swallowtail Butterfly coming out of its chrysalis, time lapsed. Related: an excellent (but unembeddable) documentary set of videos capturing the Monarch Butterfly from caterpillar egg to butterfly, with narra...
A Briefer History of Time: How tech changes us in unexpected ways
Have you ever gone camping where you wake and sleep with the sun and moon? Have you played outside all morning, only coming in when you get hungry for lunch? What was life like before we could measure time? How have c...
A bumblebee dislodges pollen in slow-mo
Sonication or buzz pollination is the bumblebee's secret weapon of resonant vibration. When bumblebees (and a few other bee species) grab onto a flower and vibrate it by flying in place, securely attached pollen is di...
A close up look at velvet worms (Peripatoides novaezelandiae)
Velvet worms, or peripatoides novaezelandiae, can be found around the glob, including Australia, Africa, Asia, Costa Rica, and Brazil… these particular leggy creatures in the video are f...
A crab takes a video camera into its hole
A crab finds a small video camera set up outside of its hole in Fiji. The crab decides to take the camera home…
A critically-endangered Lord Howe Island Stick Insect hatching
In a world first, zookeeper Rohan Cleave captured the amazing hatching process of a critically endangered Lord Howe Island Stick Insect at Melbourne Zoo. The eggs incubate for over 6 months and until now the hatchi...
A deep-sea octopus that protects her eggs for four & a half years
In observations from 2007 to 2011, deep-sea diving researchers at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovered that the female Graneledone boreopacifica guards her eggs for 53 months -- that's almost fo...
A floating dock launches surfers onto, under, & over waves
A 100-foot plastic floating dock curls over the Balinese waves. Six pro Volcom surfers—Balaram Stack, Imaikalani Devault, Noa Deane, Ozzie Wright, Mitch Coleborn, and Yago Dora—launch off of it with their boards, some...
A Forest Year: Time lapse videos of Earth’s cycle of the seasons
Watch the seasons change in this 15 month time lapse made from 40,000 still images, via GrrlScientist: A Forest Year by videographer Samuel Orr. During a stay in a remote Indiana cabin, while on location to work o...
A giant forest xylophone plays Bach in this Japanese commercial
It’s a forest xylophone! This is a Japanese commercial that the kid asked to watch three times in a row. The music played on the custom-made wooden keys of this beautiful instrument: Jesu,...
A giant iceberg runs aground in Newfoundland’s Iceberg Alley
This iceberg is the first iceberg of the season to float by Ferryland, a small village in Newfoundland... and then it became stuck. Rising above the water by 15 stories and descending into the depths by an unknown amo...
A green heron catches fish with some bread
This clever bird keeps throwing bread into the water, retrieving it, and then putting it back out in the water again… just a bit closer every time. Guess why and then watch Watch more...
A Moose Name Madeline: Symbiosis with a beaver
A young moose and a beaver live side by side in this clip from the BBC documentary A Moose Name Madeline. In the archives: more animals and a few symbiotic friendships.
A mother blackbird feeds brand new baby birds in their nest
Four eggs sat in a nest for three weeks. When they hatched, Harvey Young put a camera above the nest to capture video the brand new baby blackbirds. Watch them open their mouths and swing their heads around for food a...
A mother raccoon teaches her kit how to climb a tree
How do animal mothers teach their babies how to survive in the world? This raccoon mother has one approach for learning how to climb a tree: Grab the kit (also called a cub) and prop it up over and over again until th...
