When a panda gives birth to more than one cub in the wild, she will usually only attend to one and leave the remaining cubs to perish. So when a giant panda gave birth to twins at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a vigilant team took extraordinary steps to make the new…
A Wonderful Compilation Animals in Slow Motion
BBC Earth Unplugged has put together a fascinatingly detailed slow motion compilation of mammal, birds, reptiles and insects going about their respective daily business in order to ensure their comfort, satiate their hunger, travel safely and accomplish whatever task is most important at that moment. Watch some of the most stunning slow motion footage of…
Ze Frank Hilariously Provides Interesting True Facts About the Unique Habits of Sand Striking Seaworms
In a Eunice episode from his hilarious land and sea-focused video series True Facts, narrator Ze Frank shares the unique habits of a wide variety of seaworms. Throughout his explanation, Frank elegantly compared these creepy polychaete specimens to human male anatomy. The likeness is particularly obvious in the way these sand strikers pop in and…
How to Build Super Mario Bros. Style Maze for a Rat
The Q shows how to build an awesome Super Mario Bros. style maze for a rat using cardboard and paint. He then tested it out with an adorable rat named Shelly who figures out how to make it through to the end.
Homer Simpson in Real Life
A post shared by Miguel Vasquez (@marvelous_mikee) on Aug 17, 2018 at 8:44am PDT 3D artist Miguel Vasquez has created a fantastic 3D rendering that imagines what Homer Simpson would look like in real life. Last year Vasquez created real life versions of SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick. My 3D re-imagining of what Homer Simpson would…
A Pensive Frank Zappa Jams Onstage With Pink Floyd at a Belgian Music Festival in 1969
During the 1969 Festival Actuel in Mont-de-l’Enclus, Belgium, a very pensive, straight-faced Frank Zappa joined Pink Floyd onstage to perform a loose, somewhat directionless version of “Interstellar Overdrive“. Years later, Zappa told a reporter that he didn’t know what he was getting into with this gig at the time. “That was after the Mothers [of…
Determined Team of Archeologists Reconstruct the Face of a Soldier Who Died in Ancient Pompeii
A fascinating 2016 video by the Science Channel tells of a compassionate team of archeologists who were able to reconstruct the face of a soldier of Pompeii, who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted and engulfed in unbearable heat and suffocating ash. Created with high resolution photography, x-rays and computer modeling, the reconstruction offers a sense…
A Rapid Timelapse Tutorial Showing How to Create a 3D Drawing of a Hyper-Realistic Fried Egg
Italian artist Marcello Barenghi, whose amazing work we’ve previously posted, has created a really wonderful rapid timelapse tutorial showing how to create a 3D drawing of a hyper-realistic fried egg. The artist used a combination of colored pencils, airbrush, and graphite to create the drawing’s realism and standout three dimensionality. Barenghi also offers step by…