When a 13-year-old boy started down a zipline in Costa Rica, the last thing he expected was to “clock” a sloth straight in the face. But that’s what happened, and the person behind him caught the whole thing on video. How long do you think the zipliners had to wait Read more…
Tom Waddington is currently solo rowing the north Atlantic Ocean, and he recently found himself far from alone—pilot whales swarmed him, and he got it on camera. His social media manager posted the video to Waddington’s Instagram account, which he’s managing while Waddington is on his expedition. In the video, Read more…
“Out of all the nopes in Nopeland, this might be the nopiest nope of them all.” This fine quote comes from a person on Instagram who watched mountain biker Marco Bassot’s recent video of him riding a barely there ridge in the Italian Dolomites. She says what we’re all thinking: Read more…
We’ve all had those moments when a hike just doesn’t go as planned. A pair of Irish hikers reached a supposedly scenic viewpoint after hiking for hours, and they were a bit underwhelmed. But they didn’t let the disappointing view spoil their fun. In fact, the two made a TikTok Read more…
Some animals get aggressive when they wind up in a place they’re not supposed to be. Not this one. A black bear in Colorado found its way to a renaissance fair and set up camp beneath a honeycomb shop—probably for the free smells. Officials say it appeared to have no Read more…
Not even the officials could refrain from making cat puns when a mountain lion showed up in the courtyard of a hospital in southern Arizona. Was it a “cat burglar” coming to strip the place of its valuables? Was it there for a CAT scan? One patient at the Tucson Read more…
On Thursday morning, an SUV with five people inside careened off the road in Yellowstone National Park and crashed into a hot, acidic geyser. Everyone survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The vehicle sank under nine feet of hot water before crews pulled it out. In a press release from Yellowstone, park Read more…
Have you ever seen a sea turtle dance? A Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle nesting at North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore showed off its dance moves last month as it buried its eggs with sand. It’s a critically endangered turtle with a very unique method of nest building, making this Read more…
Two lion brothers recently swam farther than any other lion on record. They swam nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Kazinga Channel in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. A drone recorded the incredible feat, made immensely more incredible when you consider that one of the lions only has three Read more…
An extremely venomous coastal taipan named Cyclone just crushed a venom-yield world record by producing 5.2 grams of raw venom in one try. According to the folks who extracted this venom, that’s enough of the deadly substance to kill 400 people. But the question we’re asking is: What about that Read more…
