If you think bats are terrifying, vampiric creatures of the night, you’ve got them all wrong. The abandoned bat pups being taken care of at the Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Australia are proof that baby bats can be just as adorable as any kitten or puppy.
Musician plays Beethoven for rescued group of old and injured elephants. It’s very touching.
The animal kingdom is full of beautiful and mysterious processes, but there are few that are more captivating and wonderful than the metamorphoses that caterpillars undergo to become moths or butterflies.
The stunning and weird ways that animals breathe, presented at the latest work of designer Eleanor Lutz, ‘an animated guide to breathing.’
Amber itself is formed from tree resin that, over thousands of years, fossilizes to produce first copal and then thousands or millions of years after that, amber. The sticky resin traps anything in its way, preserving it for millennia.
Sperm whales don’t sleep offten, but when they do it looks really weird. See for yourself.