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.
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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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Conspiraciones
A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.
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Rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers captured with a drone in a forest in New Brunswick.
Credit: Derek Burgoyne
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This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.
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Massive silverback gorilla blocks a road so his family can cross safely.
Credit: BBC Earth
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Baby elephants don't learn to control their trunks until they’re about a year old.
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Danny Deraney
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
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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
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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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A whale shark gliding through bioluminescent algae appears to be swimming in space.
Credit: Mike Nulty
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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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Deer bouncing across an empty beach at dawn.
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A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover.
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Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".
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Dhanraj Nathwani
This ferrofluid audio-visualizer created by artist Dakd Jung dances to the music.
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An incredible example of color changing and camouflage by an octopus filmed off the coast of Mozambique.
Credit: Nick Ruberg
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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).
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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
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The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.
4K version on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=u-OfbN
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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.
Credit: Outlaw Rocks
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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.
Credit: Discovery Channel
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Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky.
Credit: Martin Giraud
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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.
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Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".
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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.
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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.
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The stunning colors of the Anna's hummingbird are iridescence caused by light scattering from nanoscale structures within their feathers.
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This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer.
Full video: bit.ly/2VymKvz
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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
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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
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Snow falling on crystal clear Alaskan glacial melt water captured by photographer John Derting.
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John Derting
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.
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This is how an Aurora is created.
Credit: Per Byhring/UiO
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Incredible close encounter with a humpback whale.
Credit: Cassie Jensen
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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
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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.
Credit: Vancouver Aquarium
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Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting.
Credit: Vancouver Aquarium
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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
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Marie Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet).
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A magical sunset over a sea of clouds filmed in timelapse by Tristan Heth.
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This clever little caterpillar makes a leaf tent so it can eat in peace.
Credit: BBC
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Betül Zer
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 ().
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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
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Mushrooms release millions of microscopic spores into the wind to propagate.
Credit: Villareal C. Jojo
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A juvenile Victoria's Riflebird performs his elaborate courtship dance to an unimpressed female.
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Rebecca Herbert
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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L'important
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.
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Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava high in silica cools quickly preventing crystal growth.
Credit: Outlaw Rocks
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L'important
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
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The amazing head stabilization of a hunting kestrel.
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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.
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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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Javier Feu
Look closely... that is not a spider. The spider-tailed horned viper uses the tip of its tail to lure birds.
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BBC Earth
Fascinating footage of a kestrel hovering with its head held perfectly still as it hunts for prey.
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ViralHog
A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.
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This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.
Credit: CSA/NASA
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