Pets & Animals

Watch an entomologist search beneath piles of bison poop for rainbow scarabs, a beautiful dung beetle native to North America. ➡ 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 …

A tourist in the jungles of Indonesia got up close and personal with a clingy orangutan. ➡ 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 …

See rare video of a swimming great horned owl. Hikers walking through a canyon in Lake Powell between Arizona and Utah stumbled upon the rare sight. It’s likely a young great horned owl and still has some of its nestling feathers. Great horned owls often roost on cliff ledges, so …

Deep in the ocean off Australia, scientists found a rarely seen horror—a deep-sea lizard fish, complete with a maw of sharp teeth and haunting black eyes. ➡ 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, …

These pharaoh cuttlefish change their appearance and behavior to mimic hermit crabs. But why? ➡ 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 …

In Sydney, Australia, a deadly battle between a spider wasp and a Huntsman spider concludes with a surprise. Spider wasps paralyze large spiders like Huntsmans with a painful sting. The wasp attempts to drag the immobilized spider back to its nest where the spider likely would have been devoured by …

Watch seagulls perform a balancing act while mating. ➡ 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 …

See a rare “faceless” fish that hasn’t been seen for over a 100 years. ➡ 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 …

Can you tell if a monkey is going to bite you based on its facial expressions? Researchers at the University of Lincoln, UK, found that tourists frequently misread the emotions of wild macaques, and this misunderstanding can have dangerous consequences. Oftentimes tourists believed a monkey was “smiling” or “blowing them …

Researchers conducted an experiment with human-raised ravens that shows these birds remember who to trust after one interaction. ➡ 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 …