Category: Nature

In the warm, calm waters of Crystal River, Fla., there resides an aggregation of some of the most magnificent and mysterious creatures that perhaps ever survived on this planet. The manatee, as I was fortunate enough to find out first hand, are not only gentle giants, they are playful, curious and simply fascinating to watch…

A jellyfish filmed swimming off the coast of Cornwall is thought to be the biggest ever caught on camera in Britain. The four-foot wide barrel jellyfish, which is also known as the dustbin-lid jellyfish, was filmed by diver and archeologist Robert Lenfert. Robert, 42, and his wife Natasha, 39, met the giant creature off Pendennis…

Bubbles the African elephant loves to swim and she enjoys the experience even more when she has friends to share it with. Bubbles has developed her own game of picking people up with her trunk and them placing them on her head. She waits for the person to jump off and, if they wait too…

Warning, a bit of bad language, as can happen when a shark jumps on you. It’s a routine kayak fishing adventure for Isaac Brumaghim, until Chompy the shark shows up.

Brazilian girl fishing for piranha using a piece of meat http://youtu.be/DyEaX71_XrQ

It sounds like something out of a third grader’s standardized testing: “If 39,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the river and they got 3,000 tons out, how many tons are left in the river?” We won’t do the math for you, but… well hey, why not? 36,000 tons. That’s how much coal ash (at…

Man has exploited the ocean and its creatures for as long as mankind has existed. Now the sea creatures are fighting back. Arif Sabir were spearfishing with friends off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, when they encountered a large Goliath grouper. The men get a short laugh in just before the grouper takes a bite…

The largest flying aquatic insect on record was discovered in China’s Sichuan province. The specimen was delivered to the Insect Museum of West China and determined to be a larger version of the dobsonfly. The creature has a wingspan of 8.27 inches (21 cm). With its wings fully extended, this giant dobsonfly can completely cover an adult…

From earlier this month Steven Robles was an hour into his regular weekend swim off some of Southern California’s most popular beaches when he came face-to-face with a great white shark. The 7-foot-long juvenile had been trying to free itself from a fisherman’s hook for about half an hour. It came up to the surface,…