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 also known as the “Cow Killer”–in the Arizona desert and decided to take what is ranked to be the fourth most painful insect sting in the world. The results were well, painful.

Nature show cameraman finds a deadly surprise guest hiding out in his bathroom
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...