Caught on Video

While on location in Indonesia, filming deadly reptiles in the wild for the BBC’s second entry into its Planet Earth series, cameraman Mark MacEwen discovered one of the beasts he had just captured on video had holed itself up in his bathroom. Not wanting to risk his own injury or worse at the jaws of...

A couple in Northern Minnesota noticed water levels at the pond behind their home steadily rising over a period of seven years, due to the diligent construction of a beaver dam nearly nine feet in length near a spillway. The beavers steadily added to the damn over the years, causing the overall pond to rise...

A driver was making his way through a mountain road, maybe a little too quickly although we can’t see his speedometer, when a black bear crossed his path. The black bear got the worst part, however, the animal gets up and runs off like it’s nothing. We hope he was okay! As for the driver,...

I know bears can swim, but I’ve never seen a bear swim THIS far. The black bear jumped in and swam like it was no problem to the other side. This incredible high-definition footage was taken at Upper Klamath Lake near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Gerald Holt, the uploader of the video, says, “It was a...

Anyone who’s tried it before knows, there’s more engineering that goes into ripping out a tree with your truck than most people realize. We’ve all dealt with a tree on our property that we want gone and felling it and grinding out the stump can be a serious hassle. If you’ve got a strong enough...

Biologist Pacifica Sommers spotted this amazing display of the natural order while trekking through the Rincon Mountains of Saguaro National Park in Arizona and just had to capture it on video. Thanks to her amazingly detailed and supremely informed commentary, we know that this giant water bug snagged this garter snake measuring almost three times...

The natural world can be a brutal place at times. Animal instinct forces many species to do combat with their own kind, usually to protect a source food or family. That force is what drove these two bucks to lock horns and fight, but when a hunter happened upon these embattled animals, both bucks were...

When this enormous humpback whale swam closer to Aussie photographer Beau Pilgrim while on a dive off the coast of Vava’u, Tonga, he knew he was about to capture some amazing footage. But this whale breached the surface of the water right in front of Pilgrim and crashed back down mere inches away from him...

An observant Jacksonville driver placed maybe the strangest call to 911 that the Clay County Sheriff’s Office had ever heard before: the eyewitness had just flagged down a car with a bald eagle struggled to remove itself from the car’s radiator grille. Rescue officials responded to the call a short while later and were amazed...

Life on the savanna can be harsh and unforgiving for the animals who call it home. The fight for survival is a daily one, and only the strong live to fight through another day. The mother of this poor giraffe calf was forced to fight against two massive lions when they attacked her youngling, even...

While riding around on Gooseberry Mesa in Saint George, Utah, Nate Howard and his brother Jayson were just enjoying the view and trying out wheelies and other stunts. When Nate got out his phone to take a video, Jayson circled back to him and tried to hop on of the gaps near the cliff’s edge....

The running joke about the Land Down Under is that 90% of the wildlife is out to kill you. Aussies have to contend with a plethora of venomous insects and reptiles, not to mention birds which swoop down to try and gouge out your eyes. One of the deadliest natural predators on the continent is...

What better thing to cap off your roadtrip to Alaska’s beautiful and wondrous Denali National Park and Wildlife Preserve than to see the biggest moose bull you’ve ever seen before traipse by you, only inches away? These lucky vacationers showed up at the right place at absolutely the right time.

It was bad enough for Ellen Sager of Howell, New Jersey that she accidentally struck a deer on the road. When she pulled over to assess the damage, she had no idea that her night was going to end with her having to fight off the very same buck she just hit. Panicked and in...

Many Waterloo, Iowa residents currently have plenty to deal with thanks to heavy rainfall which has caused serious flooding from the Cedar River. But even their own lives already heavily affected by the flooding, a group of good Samaritans felt they had to act when they saw a young deer thrashing about in the flooded...

Professional crazy person Coyote Peterson is all about educating people on the dangers that wildlife encounters can bring. He’s been bitten, stung, and leeched on by pretty much every critter that won’t actually kill you and even some that might. For his latest outing, he and his crew happened on a velvet ant–a ground wasp...

While on vacation in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, Kevin Mac and his friends went out on the water to enjoy a little afternoon wakeboarding. Much to their surprise, they found a dolphin who was more than eager to join their excursion and show off a few of his own moves. The happy-go-lucky aquatic mammal had...

Now before you go ahead and roast this guy for not checking his chain for flaws and wear, the tractor owner here claims he knew it would likely bust but felt it wouldn’t be a safety issue since he had it places so low on the both the tractor and the tree. Now, that won’t...

This hunter and his buddies were testing their best coyote calls out in small clearing. As you can see in the video, the hunter seated with his rifle lets out a loud howl and as soon as he finishes, the hunters realize that they’re completely surrounded by coyotes who heard their every call. And they...

An Auburn County, California Deputy Sheriff heard rustling coming from their garbage area, he quickly realized he had a bear of a problem on his hands. A little brown bear cub was rifling through the Sheriff’s office trash cans but the deputy made sure the cub knew who was boss and ordered the cub to...

Diver Jamie Hugg strapped his GoPro to his speargun and dove into the ocean thinking he would capture some good footage of a day of spearfishing, but could not have imagined just how close he would come to losing his life. A roaming Great White shark apparently mistook him for a seal, banging into him...

This incident took place in a rather remote village in India called Madhya Pradesh. The incident was caught on camera and put online where it quickly went viral. The man is only wearing shorts and a t-shirt and attempts to scare off the leopard by banging a stick on a large log. Crazy!