Incredible footage captures the moment a killer whale stuns a stingray with a powerful tail-slap. Orca slaps a Pelagic Stingray byu/Dacnis inHardcoreNature The rare footage was filmed off the coast of Mexico. The stingray eventually died, but interestingly, was never eaten by the orcas. Orcas are known to use this tail-slap technique to protect themselves […] More
A team of researchers in Madagascar have filmed the rare and elusive Omura’s whale (also known as the dwarf fin whale). This is the first time footage of the whale has been captured. Led by Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the researchers positively identified the whale, which made […] More
The Alligator Gar is one of the largest freshwater fish in North America, as well of one of the most legendary — with anecdotal stories circulating of monster gars measuring over 15 feet long. More
A buffalo smashed into a safari vehicle during a desperate attempt to flee from some hungry lions, and it was captured on video. A group of safari-goers were on tour observing a pride of lions when a buffalo sprinted out onto the road with a lioness in tow. Two other lions then appear, surrounding the […] More
This never-ending lightning storm has ravaged the Venezuelan skies as long as anyone can remember. Massive lightning storms over the Catatumbo Delta encompass the skies for ten hours every night in the same place for nearly three quarters of the year. The phenomenon is considered one of the great natural wonders of the world and is […] More
When a small, helpless frog leaps into the web of a huge, hungry orb-weaver spider, you’d expect the frog to be lunch. After all, spiders don’t just eat insects, they will eat anything that they can catch in their webs, from snakes to birds. For the frog, there is seemingly no hope. But the frog […] More
Part hummingbird, part moth and part…hawk? The hummingbird hawk-moth seems to be taking inspirations from a few different parts of the animal kingdom, leading to one of the more bizarre-looking flying creatures on this planet. With its ability to hover (along with the humming noise it emits as it does so) and a long feeding […] More
Blenny fish are trading in water for land – and evolving right before our eyes in order to escape formidable aquatic predators. More than thirty other species of fish have undergone this same transformation throughout the last 400 million years. Evolution occurs due to a multitude of factors including habitat pressure, lack of food, and […] More
A crest-tailed mulgara — thought to be extinct for more than 100 years — was found burrowing through the sand dunes of New South Wales. Known previously only through fossilized remnants, the animal is one of two species of mulgara found throughout Central Australia. These marsupials have crested bushy tails, measure up to a foot […] More
Only found in the Galapagos Islands, the red-lipped batfish have some of the strangest coloration around. Not to mention, the positioning of its red lips makes it look eternally grumpy. Is it possible that it’s the fish cousin of Grumpy Cat? Named after Darwin, Ogcocephalus darwini are one of the stranger species found in the ocean (which […] More
The remains of a carnivorous, tyrannosaurid dinosaur were found in Alaska — named Nanuqsaurus, or “polar bear lizard”, after the cold, snowy upper latitudes of its natural habitat. The single species Nanuqsaurus hoglundi is known from a partial skull fragment from the Prince Creek Formation of the North Slope of Alaska, dating back to the Late Cretaceous period. Although related to Tyrannosaurus […] More
