Awesome Animals

Babysitter Cat may look like she couldn’t care less about her ward, but she does. So much so that she’s willing to sacrifice herself just to keep the playful little human amused.

Oh Mylo. The way your owner has put this goofy video together of your finest cat moments just makes us all wish we could come back as a housecat in our next life. (Thanks Adam!)

Uh, why are we doing this again? I don’t know. All I know is that as soon as he falls asleep I’m giving his ass a conga line of bites. That doesn’t make sense. And this?! Does this make sense to you?!?

There’s a rumor that planes flying over the heads of penguins makes them fall over and unable to right themselves, causing mass casualties. Russia Today’s reporters get to the bottom the story.

Like many dogs, Purin the beagle loves playing catch with his owner. But she plays it unlike any dog we’ve seen, making other mutts look like fools, what with their barbaric mouth-catching. Yatta!

You know how they say that sloths are slow? Perhaps it’s a good idea that someone gave this little guy a hand as he made his plodding three-toed trek across a street in Costa Rica.

Dogs are wonderful creatures. At times, they’re incredibly smart, other times, not so much. And sometimes they’re just “creative”, like this boxer and his “special” way of getting down stairs.

Turn your speakers up or it won’t be fun: a kitten comes across the unknown, the immovable, the DREADED TENNIS BALL. Nah, it’s probably like this whenever it encounters something new.

Robbie the dog is smart enough to fetch a stick and bring it back when his owner throws it to him. Unfortunately, he’s not bright enough to figure out that this is not his owner. Gotta love dogs.

We’ve all heard about the critical role that a dog played in the takedown of Osama Bin Laden. Turns out cats have been involved in military operations for a while as well.

In Soviet Russia, they use kittens instead of crash test dummies in what can only be called extreme animal testing. PeTA, we’ve been assured that no kittens were harmed in the making of this video.

We’ve posted our share of silly animal videos, but we want to know if you love ’em or hate ’em. State your case over on Facebook, then check out something else that people either love or hate.

Determined to get a clean shot at his distracted opponent, this mutt takes a page out of his unwitting prey’s book. We’re sure even cats would approve of the dog’s stealthy approach.

We wish the quality of this clip were better, but when we got to the part where one of these Australian cattle dogs runs across all those benches without missing a step, we had to put it up anyhow.

A video showing fire ants making a nigh-unsinkable raft out of their bodies, taken by Georgia Tech graduate student Nathan Mlot. The ants can also make a bubble of air if submerged underwater.

Takauki Hori printed these skeletons of endangered species onto translucent paper. When flat, they just look like a bunch of random bones, but properly assembled, they form a 3-dimensional skeleton.