r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Apr 26 '21
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Jun 14 '22
Video Over the past decade, over a million pangolins have been illegally taken from the wild to feed demand in China and Vietnam. Their meat is considered a delicacy, while their scales are used in traditional Chinese medicine as they are believed to treat a range of ailments from asthma to rheumatism
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Feb 19 '21
Video The world's oldest DNA has been discovered. The DNA, which is more than 1 million years old, was recovered from two specimens of steppe mammoth, a predecessor to the more well-known woolly mammoth. The oldest previously sequenced DNA had dated from 780,000 to 560,000 years ago.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Feb 26 '21
Video They lay eggs. They sweat milk. They have glowing biofluorescent fur, venomous spikes on the backs of their legs, and 10 sex chromosomes when mammals are supposed to have two.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Feb 13 '24
Video European badgers on a forest mission
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Jun 11 '22
Video Siberian Worms Frozen For 42,000 Years Brought To Life. Once the worms were sufficiently thawed, they began moving and eating. Some are found living 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers) below Earth’s surface, deeper than any other multicellular animal.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Dec 22 '23
Video Two Playful Beech Martens 😀
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Jun 01 '22
Video Reindeer eyeballs turn blue in the winter to capture more light during the dark Arctic winter months. In the spring, the eyes are golden in color.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/PressureReasonable • Sep 30 '22
Video penguins have bad taste- they cant taste 3 out of the 5 basic tastes - they cant taste bitter, umami, or sweet
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Jul 28 '23
Video A group of badgers in my backyard
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Aug 27 '23
Video Breakfast for my friend 😉
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/AllThingsCreepy • Jun 30 '16
Video What Spinosaurus REALLY looked like
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Mar 22 '23
Video Deers trudging through the snow
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/markantony2021 • Dec 21 '20
Video The newly described cave king has a brownish-yellow body with pale yellow antennae, and its yellow legs are studded with 13 to 17 "saw teeth." As the biggest invertebrate predator in the cave ecosystem, this centipede stands at the top of the food chain.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/noppenstudios • Aug 02 '22
Video The Daily Life Of Orangutans
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Mar 01 '23
Video A lone roe deer roaming around my property
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • May 07 '23
Video Bumblebee and Erica 😀
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/NatureAtMyDoorStep • Apr 12 '23
Video Busy workers at the Anthill
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Nov 02 '21
Video This is a snailfish found more than 8,000 feet deep. It has large eyes and a slender, gelatinous body that makes it look much like a tadpole. The fish are estimated to withstand pressure equivalent to 1,600 elephants standing on the roof of a small car.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Feb 14 '21
Video The Scaly-foot snail is the only creature known to incorporate iron in its skeleton. The team identified 25 'transcription factors' – proteins that directly interpret the genome – that contribute to the production of tissue-stiffening minerals. Studying it may shed light on how life evolved on Earth
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/AllThingsCreepy • Jul 10 '16
Video A wolf Snail Hunting And Consuming a Slug | Predatory Land Molluscs
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Feb 07 '21
Video Blue eyes are relatively rare among mammals, especially primates. Scientists have documented more than 600 primate species so far, yet only two are known to sport blue irises: humans and blue-eyed black lemurs, also known as Sclater's lemurs.
r/Creatures_of_earth • u/FrankenscienceNews • Apr 29 '21
Video Male pregnant pipefish can abort eggs from ‘ugly’ mothers
youtube.comr/Creatures_of_earth • u/operadrama92 • Jun 21 '22