This elephant helps a gazelle avoid drowning

Rare footage of a giant albino sea turtle surfacing with remora fish attached

This is an exceptionally rare sight. Mountain lions are typically crepuscular, meaning they're most active during the low-light hours of dawn and dusk. But in places like California, some of these big cats adapt to a nocturnal lifestyle, as this one clearly has tonight. The primary reason they operate at these off-peak hours is to avoid detection—by both humans and prey. So, simply seeing a mountain lion cross the road in front of you is already an extraordinary encounter. But witnessing that same lion immediately hunt, kill, and drag off a large raccoon for a late-night meal? That’s the kind of once-in-a-lifetime moment that sits somewhere between getting struck by lightning and winning the lottery. It’s just really, really cool—that’s all I’m trying to say. Sometimes I get a little carried away with metaphors. Also, I added music to this video since it was submitted without sound… not sure if it works better with or without, but hey, that ship has sailed. [📹 christinascrittersca]

Everyone, you have to see these adorable baby seals! 🦭❤️

Just 5 days old — this baby donkey is too cute! 😍🤭

A blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived, viewed from above. [📹 Delaney Trowbridge]

The yellow boxfish, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, is easily recognized by its distinctive cube-like shape. Its diet mainly consists of algae and small marine invertebrates. When under stress, it can release toxins that may be harmful to surrounding fish.

A wind surfing crow

We humans have a peculiar habit of elevating certain animals above others, tethering our emotions to them as if they exist outside nature’s brutal laws. From my own experience, three creatures ignite the deepest sorrow when they perish: dogs, whales, and elephants. Dogs are family—our companions shaped by millennia of shared history, their loyalty etched into their DNA. Losing one cuts with a familiar, personal ache. Whales, like humpbacks or blues, drift through the oceans with a grace that feels timeless, their haunting songs giving the illusion of permanence; when they beach or fall to hunters, it feels like losing something ancient and irreplaceable. And then there are elephants. They embody patience and memory, creatures with minds that rival our own. A mother endures 23 months of pregnancy to bring a 200-pound calf into the fold of her tightly bonded herd. When that calf is torn away by a lion or a hyena, it’s not just a death—it’s the theft of years of effort and protection, a generational wound. But nature doesn’t care. It never has. The wild is an indifferent machine, running not on justice or sentiment but on chaos, instinct, and chance. We love to imagine hierarchies: noble animals, worthy of survival, and lesser ones, dispensable. But the wilderness laughs at our charts. A leopard doesn’t pause to ponder an elephant’s wisdom—it sees only flesh. An orca doesn’t honor the grandeur of a whale—it senses an opportunity to eat. Everything in nature bends to one merciless truth: outsmart or outrun what wants to kill you, or starve chasing what doesn’t. No creature is sacred. There are no favorites here—only the lucky and the unlucky, all poised precariously at the edge of existence. A single mistake spells death, whether for the vulnerable or the apex predator. Even the hunter isn’t safe: a few failed hunts can turn strength into weakness, hunger into fatal exhaustion. Our grief, our reverence for these animals, changes nothing. The wild is a relentless game of survival, where every player, no matter how beloved or ignored, faces the same cold odds: run fast, think fast—or be reduced to nothing more than sustenance for something else. [📹 russ_wildlife]

Aww, love is definitely in the air! 🥰❤️

Enjoying some playful piggy fun! 🐷🥰

The Spanish dancer (Hexabranchus sanguineus) is a large, brightly colored sea slug known for its undulating swimming style, resembling a flamenco dancer's skirt. [📹 kotravellers]

The courtship display of the male peacock spider. [📹 Michael Doe]

A mother polar bear leaps into the water to rescue her cub from drowning, then gently guides it on how to climb to safety.

Here, a northern flicker desperately tries to defend her nest from a hungry bull snake, a common predator known for raiding bird nests to eat hatchlings or eggs—an easy and energy-efficient meal. Though it may appear in this brief clip that the mother bird is giving the snake a fierce fight, the reality was far longer and more harrowing. According to those who witnessed the event at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, the encounter stretched on for about 20 minutes. Eventually, the snake released the defensive mother bird. The likely reason? After devouring the flicker’s chicks, the snake was too full to consume the adult as well. A brutal reminder that in nature, survival is often a matter of timing, instinct, and cold pragmatism. [📹 yycgardener]

The most adorable little red panda ever! 😍❤️

Who would've thought a cat and a goat could be such perfect pals? 🐐🐱❤️

A leopard watches the sunset, perched high in a tree in the Masai Mara, Kenya. [📹 headedtoafrica]

Beautiful footage of a whale and her calf swimming together off the coast of Esperance, Western Australia, captured by Jaimen Hudson.

Vali, a bear at the Budapest Zoo, pulls a drowning crow out of the water and then turns his attention back to his lunch of fruits and vegetables. [📹 Aleksander Medveš]