Nature

Each year, the Game Commission collects Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) samples from hunter-harvested animals, road-kills, escaped captive cervids, and any cervid showing signs of CWD. In 2016, The Pennsylvania Game Commission tested 5,707 deer and 110 elk for Chronic Wasting Disease. Twenty-five wild deer tested positive for CWD, all within Disease Management Area 2 (DMA...

You won’t get far in the lumberjack business with a fear of heights. These daredevil loggers show just how far they’ll climb to drop a tree. With a GoPro strapped to his head, one timberman climbs to knee-quaking heights and gets to work. Warning, this video may cause severe anxiety for viewers suffering from vertigo.

One pilot captured some amazing footage while flying. The pilot films a forming funnel cloud in the sky north of Kenmare, North Dakota. In case you didn’t know, a funnel cloud is a rotating funnel-shaped cloud forming the core of a tornado or waterspout. Watch the amazing video below!

There are some things you don’t see every day and this is definitely one of them. They were filming a sunset accompanied with lightning. You first see lightning in the distance. Then the camera pans over and there’s a rainbow. I’ve never seen anything like this before!

Witnessing a landslide on a steep mountain road is truly terrifying. In this video footage of a frightening natural disaster was captured along the mountains in Japan. Trees ‘float’ along sliding soil almost like they’re moving along a river. Helicopter footage after the event shows the devastation from a bird’s eye view.

The oceans of this planet never cease to amaze. There’s most depth (literally and figuratively) to the deepest pockets of marine life than anywhere else. Check out this incredible list of all the various lifeforms, oddities and occurrences. You’re bound to see things you never knew existed!

The President, the world’s second-largest tree, is such a magnificent giant that until recently it had never been captured in a single photograph. The massive tree lives in Sequoia National Park and has been photographed for National Geographic magazine. Technically the tree still hasn’t been captured as a ‘single photo’ since the complete image is...

While traveling through Tucson, Arizona, Bryan Sinder managed to catch a fascinating natural phenomenon on film. The 29-year-old storm chaser was ready and waiting to capture a sudden rainstorm on camera. He managed to capture a ‘rain bomb’ or ‘wet microburst,’ which has rarely ever been seen on film. A ‘rain bomb’ can be as...

A dragonfly experiences its whole life ten times faster and than a human being. It also sees in twelve different color wavelengths where the human eye sees in only three. The engineers behind the “In The Eyes Of Animal” virtual reality film used LIDAR, CT scanning, photogrammetry, a proprietary form of full 360-degree aerial photography,...

An electric eel makes a Pyrrhic victory against a small crocodile looking for an easy meal. The eel has already been injured when the croc moves in for the final blow. Unfortunately, the eel’s electric defense system was still fully operational when the croc bit down. No one was walking, or swimming, away from this...

Pines are some of the most recognizable and resilient trees in the wilderness. Big, strong, and surprisingly, full of nutritional value. If you’re in a pinch and need food to survive, the pine has got your back. Its needles can be steeped in boiling water for a hearty tea, or used to make a skin...

Your weary ankles and knees tell you to stop, scream at you to stop, but your heart says keep going. Your eyes say, “Keep going.” Just over this crest. One more mile until the summit. One more hour until you cross the river. Everything inside of you is saying quit, but something else, something bigger...

The devastating effect of a real life EF-4 tornado is truly unbelievable. A security camera survived an brutal tornado that literally ripped a gymnasium in half. The stunning footage below looks like something from a movie, but it really happened. Now you know why it is so important to see underground shelter during a tornado.

Watching nature on the move is a peaceful yet powerful thing. We are forced to observe the awesome, majestic, and larger power of the wild when we walk among it. This time lapse of some of the most iconic locations in Patagonia from Timestorm Films is a stark reminder of the beauty of nature and the...

When you hear the term ‘sand dollar’ what do you think of? Most people picture the bleached white discs adorning everything from wind chimes to picture frames scattered throughout gift shops along the coasts. The real thing is very different as this camerawoman shows us. Live sand dollars are darker in appearance and their backside...

Waterfalls are a popular destination for hikers. When reaching a waterfall after a hike, one can’t deny the beauty of Mother Nature. It is no easy task to choose the best waterfalls, but these are OUR top 5 favorite waterfalls to hike! Havasu Falls Location: Arizona (image source; utah.com) Havasu Falls is located on the...

You may have eaten a few weird things in your life, rocky mountain oysters, or some strange seafood, but could you eat a burger patty made from midge flies? During their mating season on the shores of Lake Victoria in Africa, the midge flies swarm by the hundreds of thousands. Residents of local villages use...

Harvesting and packaging trees is serious business all over the planet. This particular company uses a certain kind of machine to wrap them up for transportation before cutting them down. Watch as it works it’s way up like a spider wrapping up its prey!

Everyone hates fire ants. So what better way to destroy them than to pour molten aluminium into every chamber and hallway of their whole underground network. What’s even cooler about this method of extermination however, is what you can dig up out of the ground once the aluminium cools off. You wind up with an...

This snake obviously had a big appetite because it chose a crocodile for its meal. It took 5 hours, but the snake successfully devoured the croc whole. It’s almost unbelievable.

This team of father and sons love the outdoors and learning more about what goes on inside everything. For their YouTube channel What’s Inside? these backyard explorers carve up an empty wasp’s nest. The boys are thrilled to see the inner workings of one of nature’s meanest insects.

This selfie stick using snowboarder has no idea how close she was to being mauled by a brown bear that was hot on her trail as she blissfully sauntered through the snow while singing along to her song. Some people say it’s fake and it very well could be. What do you guys think?