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Bald eagles have taken over this Alaskan town – often making life difficult for locals… More

Although seemingly harmless pets, goldfish have characteristics that make them extremely catastrophic to freshwater habitats. More

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