These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.
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A rare encounter with a giant phantom jellyfish 990m (3,200 ft) beneath the surface in Monterey Bay.
Mesmerizing malachite crystals.
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Fascinating drone footage looking down into a volcanic eruption from above.
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This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.
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Strong winds create a reverse waterfall in Maharashtra, India.
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A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.
Rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers captured with a drone in a forest in New Brunswick.
Credit: Derek Burgoyne
This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.
Massive silverback gorilla blocks a road so his family can cross safely.
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Baby elephants don't learn to control their trunks until they’re about a year old.
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The surface of Mars as seen by Curiosity Rover with the sound of the Martian winds captured by InSight lander. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Spectacular timelapse of a SpaceX launch over downtown Los Angeles. twitter.com/EmericTimelaps
Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it.
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Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers
This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer.
A whale shark gliding through bioluminescent algae appears to be swimming in space.
Credit: Mike Nulty
A stunning cloudburst over Lake Millstatt, Austria captured by photographer Peter Maier. twitter.com/Theia32314852/
A cheetah running at full speed covers about 7m (23 ft) with each stride.
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Cheetahs don't roar, they meow and purr like house cats.
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Deer bouncing across an empty beach at dawn.
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A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover.
Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".
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This ferrofluid audio-visualizer created by artist Dakd Jung dances to the music.
An incredible example of color changing and camouflage by an octopus filmed off the coast of Mozambique.
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A stunning example of cloud iridescence, caused by small ice crystals scattering the sun's rays, filmed in Narathiwat, Thailand.
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Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet).
Sea otter mothers give their pups almost constant attention, carrying it on her belly away from the cold water, grooming its fur, and letting the pup nurse or sleep.
Credit: Connie Levenhagen Niemi
The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.
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Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.
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Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava high in silica cools quickly preventing crystal growth.
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A beautiful "firefall" created by the setting sun illuminating Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park.
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This is what it would look like if the biggest asteroid in the Solar System collided with Earth.
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Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky.
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The violent eruption a few hours ago of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano captured by satellites GOES-West and Himawari-8.
Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".
Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation, captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet.
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Polar bear cub surprised by a seal.
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Stunning opal reveal.
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This is how jets refuel in midair.
The magical Stuðlagil Canyon in Iceland looks like another planet.
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A 22-million-year-old termite preserved in amber.
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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
The stunning colors of the Anna's hummingbird are iridescence caused by light scattering from nanoscale structures within their feathers.
This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer.
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The web of the spiny orb-weaver spider is an amazing feat of engineering, built from multiple types of silk, each with a particular function.
Credit: Rachel Barry
Mesmerizing grass waves as wind blows across the hills of Bologna, Italy, captured by photographer Dorian Pellumbi.
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This is how scallops swim.
Credit: Jules Casey
Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.
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Fascinating timelapse of a salamander growing from a single cell, into a complete, complex living organism over three weeks.
Credit: Jan van IJken
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Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
This is how an Aurora is created.
Credit: Per Byhring/UiO
Incredible close encounter with a humpback whale.
Credit: Cassie Jensen
The largest animal ever to have lived, the majestic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). 🐳
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Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied.
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The speed of light visualized on a world map.
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Reindeer beneath the Northern Lights.
Credit: Aurora Borealis Observatory
This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting.
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Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting.
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Photographer encounters a wild white Arctic Fox in Greenland. 🦊
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A seal sleeping peacefully in a kelp forest, filmed off Lundy Island, UK.
Credit: Kaushiik Subramaniam
Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet).
A magical sunset over a sea of clouds filmed in timelapse by Tristan Heth.
This clever little caterpillar makes a leaf tent so it can eat in peace.
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This beautiful timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized is a reminder that the Earth is spinning through space.
Captured at Crater Lake, Oregon by photographer Eric Brummel ().
The resurrection plant (Selaginella lepidophylla) can survive years of drought and almost complete desiccation, coming back to life after exposure to moisture.
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A stunning cloudburst over Lake Millstatt, Austria captured by photographer Peter Maier. Full video: bit.ly/2Vg9f3t
Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to propagate.
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A juvenile Victoria's Riflebird performs his elaborate courtship dance to an unimpressed female.
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This is the only known footage to exist of the incredibly rare box jellyfish Chirodectes maculatus, encountered off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Amazing close-up footage of a massive battle-scarred great white shark off southern Australia.
Credit: Dean Spraakman
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_ Imposter A unique encounter between a cat and a dolphin.
Credit: Theater of the Sea
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Stork couple celebrates their first egg (sound on).
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A stunning cloudburst over Lake Millstatt, Austria captured by photographer Peter Maier.
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The mesmerizing fluid-like motion in a flock of sheep seen from a drone as working dogs gather them for shearing.
Credit: Matt Bircham
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The beautiful opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), one of the most colorful species of sea slug, filmed off the coast of California by Aron Sanchez-Baranda.
Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava high in silica cools quickly preventing crystal growth.
Credit: Outlaw Rocks
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This is what Tesla Autopilot sees using neural networks that take 70,000 GPU hours to train and output 1,000 tensors (predictions) at each timestep.
Source: tesla.com/autopilotAI
The amazing head stabilization of a hunting kestrel.
Spectacular lightning storm over Western Australia filmed in timelapse by photographer Geoff Green.
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Flying over the Earth at night in the International Space Station, from Shanghai to South Korea.
This isn't CGI, it's a real-life creature known as a sea angel (Clione limacina) found in the cold waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.
Credit: Alexander Semenov
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Look closely... that is not a spider. The spider-tailed horned viper uses the tip of its tail to lure birds.
Fascinating footage of a kestrel hovering with its head held perfectly still as it hunts for prey.
A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.
This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.
Credit: CSA/NASA
