Black panther in love

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Wait, they wag their tails?

@megreneee22 Why does it look like he wants to hear the tea 😂#otter #beachwalks ♬ original sound - Beth Anne Brice

Real-life kaiju attacks commercial fishing boat

@serhiipelykhivsky5

♬ nhạc nền - MUSIC DJ DANCE 88

Disturbing ocean creatures hunting

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(I thought the Sarlacc-looking thing was the hunter, but I guess not)

Ravens as terrifying spirits and oracles

@wingsandwildlands Spooky voices in the wood? #raventok #ravens #talkingraven #talkingbird #appalachianfolklore #wendigo #folklore #fabletheraven ♬ original sound - wingsandwildlands

Top comment on the video:

there is a crow that barks into my chimney to get my dogs all riled up

Also, a haunting whisper:

Corvids have a role in Indo-European religions (and some others) as messengers, either of gods or an afterlife realm. You have to wonder if this capacity to imitate speech was part of the reason. https://t.co/xEzS8rrh2k

— Sturgeon's Law (@Sturgeons_Law) November 2, 2024

This Twitter account is an endless stream of absolutely bizarre ocean creatures

This is the account.

The big polychaetes where they're diving are amazing! Such a beautiful sparkle to it, & check out those brittle stars quickly fleeing @SchmidtOcean dive 725 #ChileMargin2024 pic.twitter.com/AwpwY6vCC4

— The Unknown Explorer (@TUExplorer1) October 13, 2024

Taonius squids are just a classic cranchiid. Like many cranchiids, their bodies are almost completely transparent and they are often found with their arms raised above their heads, giving them their signature funky look.#SQUIDtember pic.twitter.com/ST87poKYRZ

— Cephalopods Daily (@CephalopodToday) September 29, 2024

The oral surface of Astrodictyum panamense, a basket star-a type of ophiuroid, showing off its arms wrapped around an octocoral #fromthecollection @calacademy pic.twitter.com/MW5XnKwv19

— Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social (@echinoblog) January 3, 2020

Thanks to @NMNH's Department of Invertebrate Zoology for a great #shellebration yesterday and all our partners who contributed to a successful end to our freshwater mussel collaboration yesterday! 139,794 Images and 48,196 Specimens digitized! #digitization #invertebrates pic.twitter.com/z49C1u9RLt

— SI Collections Digitization (@SIxDIGI) October 9, 2024

Visiting the Louisiana alligator airboat tour made famous by Lana Del Rey

A fun write-up with good photos from the trip. Reminded me of Susan Orleans's The Orchid Thief.

lana del rey just posted on instagram pic.twitter.com/eLbMmI5kW0

— Carla ౨ৎ (@oceanblvdvinyl) October 3, 2024

Young man runs from belligerent ostrich

@lisa_baseballmom_09

♬ Oh No - Kreepa

@lisa_baseballmom_09 Replying to @Stacy Sexton ♬ Showin' Off - Danger Twins

(The comments don't really provide any useful context, other than I get the impression the person fleeing works there)

Montana resident sentenced to six months in federal prison for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting

Guardian:

[The defendant has] been in the game farm business since 1987

...

The US district court judge ... said he struggled to come up with a sentence for [the defendant]. He said he weighed [the defendant]’s age and lack of a criminal record with a sentence that would deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the Earth.

Terrified kids menaced by a small dinosaur

@domonique3

farm fun fieldtrip 🤣

♬ original sound - Domonique

"Bears have learned to open doors in Sierra Madre, 'like Jurassic Park'"

LATimes:

In 2020, there were about 100 reports of bear sightings in Sierra Madre but no reports of break-ins into homes, authorities said. Last year, those numbers jumped to 380 sightings and 50 break-ins.

(The article basically describes a relatively remote area of Los Angeles that has had population growth, and the difficulty neighbors had dealing with an apparently abandoned home that a bear claimed as its den.)

"A fugitive penguin in Japan has been found safe and sound two weeks after escaping into the sea"

VIDEO: A fugitive penguin in Japan has been found safe and sound two weeks after escaping into the sea and paddling for miles.#AFPVertical pic.twitter.com/rkALrFX4EZ

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 12, 2024

"absconded from an event"

Penguin climbs onto a bodyboard

@accuweather “Surf’s up, bruh!” 🐧🏄 An inquisitive African penguin shredded some waves on a bodyboard off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. #capetown #southafrica #penguin #surfing #bodyboard #animals #ocean ♬ original sound - AccuWeather

Very disobedient dragon on the loose

@sostarbcs

Im guessing its not his first time based on the workers reactions 🤣

♬ original sound - Bri Benton

When you rescue a pigeon and it sees you going out

@gofetch He keeps coming back! @carlosthepigeon1 via @ARK Media #pigeonpet #petbird #rescueinganimals ♬ original sound - Go Fetch

The bunny seems ok so you can enjoy this without concern

@joliva8705 trix are for kids #rabbit #rabbitsoftiktok #bunny #bunnies #bunniesoftiktok #dogs #dogsoftiktok #dog #weim #weimaraner #badboy #goodboy #wwe @Brianna Lynn ♬ original sound - 3rdEyeBlind

Want to see some researchers cuddling giant sea hares?

@seacr_lab

we don’t know who was less clingy, this big baby or researcher Analisa - a match made in heaven 💞

♬ Mother - Meghan Trainor

@seacr_lab protectors of the pools 🤠 #seahare #fieldwork ♬ The Chicken in Black - Johnny Cash

@seacr_lab

my babies 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌

♬ big boy sza - normusreedus

Baseball game interrupted by a turtle on the field

A TURTLE STOPPAGE AT LECOM PARK!!! pic.twitter.com/Hx7UUgr5Hb

— Bradenton Marauders (@The_Marauders) May 11, 2024

Magdiel Cotto saves the game and the turtle! 🐢

When the Marauders win, you win with @culvers! Bring your ticket to any of your local Bradenton Culver's for a free Medium Concrete Mixer! pic.twitter.com/OqHEXynzj2

— Bradenton Marauders (@The_Marauders) May 12, 2024

(The field is in Florida)

Birds of prey guarding a Vegas pool

This is our working bird, his name is Crow. He keeps the pigeons away in the pool area. He’s being trained this week, so don’t be surprised at hawk sightings at Fontainebleau 😎 #fontainebleaupoolcreau pic.twitter.com/wc2VgMGncL

— table.games.lifer (@sumthack) April 7, 2024

Today, we had a beautiful owl watching over the pool deck. #fontainebleaupoolcreau pic.twitter.com/p2P4VkT1Ad

— table.games.lifer (@sumthack) April 8, 2024

"Purple Boy" was a whale that destroyed ships for over 50 years near sixth century Constantinople

Wikipedia:

The whale was given the name Porphyrios by Byzantine sailors; the name is sometimes alternatively rendered as Porphyrius, Porphyrion, Porphyry or Porphyrio and its origin is not clear. Common hypotheses on the name include it being derived from the contemporary charioteer Porphyrius or from the mythological giant Porphyrion, who waged war against the gods of Greek mythology. Anthony Kaldellis suggested in 2010 that the name of the whale alluded to the imperial purple and was "a sign of the respect in which the whale was held". This idea was also supported by Sian Lewis and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones in 2018, who believed the name alluded to the color of royalty and was a sign of great awe for the whale.

In 1996, James Allan Stewart Evans suggested that the name was a reference to the color of the whale's skin. Porphyra meant a deep purple color in Greek and Porphyrios might have had dark-wine colored skin. This was further supported by John K. Papadopoulos and Deborah Ruscillo in 2002, who believed the name simply meant "purple". Daniel Ogden in 2008 also supported the idea that Porphyrios evoked the color of the whale, believing that the name was best interpreted as "purple boy"