The raging fury of Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡), a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze River, Yunnan, southwestern China.
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The female blanket octopus unfurls a long cape when threatened to intimidate predators, and will tear tentacles off the poisonous Portuguese man-of-war to use as weapons.
[📹 Joseph Elayani]
Call of the cassowary 🦖🔊
[📹 suryantoraptor]
Close encounter with a snow leopard.
[📹 Philippe Matteini]
How WWII Pilots Fired a Cartridge to Start Their Plane?
The crystal clear water in Defereggental, Austria.
[📹 Nicola Ronchetti / drnickmv62]
The Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is one of the oldest and most beautiful monastic libraries in the world.
Completed in 1767, it houses a remarkable collection of rare medieval manuscripts, including some dating back to before the year 1000.
Yoron Island in Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan has so crystal-clear turquoise waters that you can see for meters and meters underwater.
This is thanks to coral reefs, white sand, and the warm Kuroshio Current.
Early fighter planes used synchronization gears to fire through spinning propellers, showing controlled physics at thousands of RPM.
[🎞️ BrainHook]
A combination of a tent and a hammock.
[📹 Teun Gijsel / teuns_hippielife]
The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.
This is a 16-hour time-lapse video showing an embryo forming its spinal cord.
How Ishidaki Torture Worked 😱
Gigantic moss-covered Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) near the Fairholme boat launch at the west end of Lake Crescent, Olympic National Park, Washington State
[📹 hannahandkord]
Cleopatra (1963) cost so much it nearly sunk 20th Century Fox - what started as a $2M movie exploded into a $44M epic, forcing the studio to sell off land just to stay afloat.
This might be the craziest F-22 clip I’ve seen so far!
[📹 Markfingar]
This is not a nuclear test footage.
On December 28, 1944, while transporting ammunition to Mindoro, Philippines, the SS John Burke was hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft, and disintegrated in a tremendous explosion.
This is what a gigabyte actually means
[🎞️ Jared Owen Animations]
How animals see the world
[🎞️ eclipsednaturee]
Using early morning condensation from a hail net to water crops
[📹 Jack Adelaide]