Pets & Animals

A close look at a specimen paid off for paleontologist Sven Sachs of the Bielefeld Natural History Museum in Germany. The fossil was originally discovered in the mid 1990s in Somerset, England. Sachs correctly identified the genus of the animal, now called Ichthyosaurus somersetensis. He then consulted with Ichthyosaur expert …

These blobs look like a human brain, but are actually a colony of many individual animals. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories …

John Hume, owner of the world’s largest rhino breeding farm, is auctioning off some of their horns from his more than six-ton stockpile. The auction follows South Africa’s recent legalization of rhino horn sales. On Hume’s farm, workers regularly trim the rhinos’ horns to ward off poachers who seek to …

When plastic trash degrades in the ocean, it doesn’t just go away: It becomes countless tiny particles, and little creatures called larvaceans sweep it up–and into the food chain. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class …

Meet Patagotitan mayorum, the biggest dinosaur ever discovered. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what’s …

A family spotted an injured bald eagle swimming in the Bay of Fundy off Nova Scotia, Canada and brought it to safety. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo …

One of the Amazon rain forest’s most elusive inhabitants, the short-eared dog, has been caught on video in southeastern Peru. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you …

While it may appear that this elephant is aggressively charging a group of dogs, it’s probably just having fun. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer …

While diving off the coast of Indonesia, hobbyist diver Atsushi Sadaki captured this footage of a frogfish ‘walking’ along the seafloor. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets …

World Wildlife Fund camera traps captured some of the first-ever images of wild tigers in Bhutan. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories …