For background visuals and relaxing sound, The Traveling Bird Feeder delivers. This YouTube channel posts videos of elaborate platters filled with fruits, nuts, seeds, and other goodies for birds and woodland creatures… Read the rest of the article: Watch birds enjoy a woodland charcuterie board 

Watch bikers speed down the Mountain of Hell in France, a race notorious for its treacherous terrain. This footage captures over 1,000 riders charging down the mountain in what may be the… Read the rest of the article: Bikers race down France's infamous Mountain of Hell in stunning POV footage

I'm obsessed with this interactive felted tooth doll by What's In The Wool. This whimsical little tooth has a mouth full of even tinier teeth, all made of felt. The artist shows… Read the rest of the article: Watch what happens when you pull teeth from this felt doll

Size of Life is an educational website that displays the relative sizes of everything from DNA to entire ecosystems through detailed, hand-drawn animations. Enter the site, and you'll find yourself on… Read the rest of the article: From viruses to ecosystems: explore life's incredible size range

The peppermint-stick insect (Megacrania batesii) lurks deep in Australia's rainforests and Papua New Guinea. This slim, green bug has a weird superpower: it sprays peppermint-scented liquid at predators. You can… Read the rest of the article: Peppermint-stick insect: the mint-spraying rainforest bug

Want to learn about a truly horrifying parasite? Meet the tongue-eating isopod. This small crustacean swims into a fish's mouth, devours its tongue, then attaches itself where the tongue used to… Read the rest of the article: Meet the tongue-eating isopod, the parasite that literally becomes your tongue (if you're a fish)

These three bats at a wildlife rescue center look like characters from a storybook. In this video you can see them tucked into a little bed together, safe and cozy. Each one's… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Baby bats cuddle together during wildlife rehabilitation

A hacker with a sense of fun hijacked Dallas's tornado sirens during a test, making them play the classic theme from SpongeBob SquarePants. Nobody knows who did this or why, but… Read the rest of the article: Mystery hacker turns Dallas emergency sirens into Spongebob theme song for an hour

This Instagram page, Photos Of Pet Cemeteries, shares photos taken by Rachel, who documents pet headstones to honor them. The photos might seem sad at first glance, but they're actually a way… Read the rest of the article: Pet grave photographer captures decades of unconditional love

This Reishi mushroom growing time-lapse is otherworldly. The way the Reishi starts as what looks like a giant snail head, then sprouts into something resembling a strange and beautiful antler, completely captivates… Read the rest of the article: Watch reishi mushrooms grow (weird, beautiful, and totally hypnotic)

Something's deeply satisfying about dumping compost into a spinning drum and watching dirt and worms go their separate ways. This machine is called a Trommel Machine, and it removes live worms from… Read the rest of the article: This spinning machine separates worms from soil in seconds

Mr. Trash Wheel is a cutie pie who sits at the mouth of the Jones Falls River where it flows into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, patiently gobbling up trash before it reaches… Read the rest of the article: Baltimore's googly-eyed Mr. Trash Wheel gobbles tons of river junk

My new favorite website to have fun on is window swap. Windowswap is a site where you can view videos out of people's windows, as if you're the one sitting… Read the rest of the article: This website lets you peek through windows around the world

Here's a delightful video of pig named Phoebe who woke up to a special treat. Her owner placed a chocolate chip cookie right next to her snout as she snoozed under a… Read the rest of the article: Sleepy pig wakes up to a cookie (video)

The YouTube account "Boxlapse" created this stunning compilation of plant-growth timelapses filmed over 12 years. Watch plants of all kinds grow from seed to maturity. Seeing years of growth compressed into minutes… Read the rest of the article: 12 years of plant growth in minutes: stunning timelapse compilation

This video of a hamster wrapped in a paper towel like a tiny burrito, just its little face poking out the top, is the brain palate cleanser you didn't know… Read the rest of the article: Watch this tiny hamster burrito for an instant mood boost

This video perfectly captures the experience of trying to park at a friend's house when their excited dog is running around. You inch up the driveway, but the dog is… Read the rest of the article: The impossible task of parking at a house with an excited dog (video)

The Lycksele Ice Pillar in Lapland, Sweden, is the world's tallest ice pillar. Every winter, locals rebuild this town's monument with love. This fun tradition has been going on for… Read the rest of the article: The giant ice pillar of Lycksele, Sweden: a 25-year winter tradition

The Tripod Fish is a bizarre and fascinating deep-sea creature that stands on three elongated fin rays that look like legs. This video shows the Tripod Fish "standing," looking like something Salvador… Read the rest of the article: Self-fertilizing tripod fish looks like Salvador Dalí painting

One of my new favorite Instagram accounts follows an expanding contact ball. "What is a contact ball?" you may wonder. It's a sphere made from the page creator's disposable contact lenses.… Read the rest of the article: Woman creates growing ball from used contact lenses, names it Eyesha