Posts tagged with ‘nature’

Barn Owl Attacking Its Prey in Slow Motion

Swimming with the fearsome Humboldt squid

They often approach prey quickly with all ten appendages extended forward in a cone-like shape. Upon reaching striking distance, they will open their eight swimming and grasping arms, and extend two long tentacles covered in sharp ‘teeth’, grabbing their prey and pulling it back towards a parrot-like beak, which can easily cause serious lacerations to human flesh. The whole process takes place in seconds.

Bird science of the day: How bird wings work

You’ll never look at bird fight the same way ever again. Or maybe you will, I don’t care.

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BBC cameraman has a very, very close encounter with a polar bear

While filming The Polar Bear Family & Me in Svalbard, Norway, BBC wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan had a very close encounter with a female polar bear while he was stationed inside of a plexiglass ice cage.

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Watch the largest calving iceberg ever caught on film

From the filming of the documentary ‘Chasing Ice’ by National Geographic photographer James Balog, this is a massive 1.75 cubic mile chunk of ice breaking in half off the coast of Greenland.

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And now, here’s a time lapse video of flesh-eating beetles devouring a parrot

From the Natural History Museum of the UK:

Watch a time-lapse video showing the Museum’s smallest workers, flesh-eating beetles, preparing the skeletons of a great green macaw, tawny owl and mountain peacock-pheasant for our collections. Chemical preparation of skeletons can cause damage to the bones so a special beetle species, Dermestes haemarrhoidalis, is used to strip off the flesh while leaving the bones and collagen untouched.