Wildlife for the Web

Earth Touch staffers pick the nature and wildlife news stories that grabbed their attnention this week.

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The first episode of our new Countdown Show powers its way through Africa’s most dangerous snakes, from mambas to Mozambican cobras in under four minutes. And now that you’ve been introduced, here are a few other facts about these lethal reptiles.

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Let’s end off the week with some superheated plasma, a few coronal mass ejections and a bit of magnetic flux emergence, shall we?

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It's all the horror of the mouth-infesting isopod Cymothoa exigua relayed through the friendly medium of fabric puppets.

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It's tiny, but it will be heard. Meet the vocal little rain frog that squeaked its way to internet stardom.

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Hawaii-based conservationist and free-diving expert Ocean Ramsey wants you to know that great white sharks "aren't as scary as they appear to be". And she’s hitching a ride with one to prove it.

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As an Earth Touch crew leaves sunny South Africa behind to do some serious chilling out in Antarctica, we’ve been thinking about some of the extreme adaptations necessary for survival when temperatures plummet below zero.

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As its forest habitat shrinks, the lynx is retreating with it ... and for a camera crew trekking through the Carpathians in search of this most elusive of cats, that's pretty bad news.

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Coming to a hummingbird feeder near you ... a really hungry and ambitious praying mantis.

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It’s Valentine’s Day! As the world prepares to get all lurved up, we thought now might be the perfect time to look back on a few standout moments from our Wild Sex series. If you’ve been watching, you should know by now that the animal kingdom is a pretty raunchy place -- and we've picked out a few particularly memorable 'couples'. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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It's a place of desolation and extremes ... but it's also a place of great beauty. Here's a little photographic glimpse of the frozen continent at the bottom of the world.

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Sounds from the depths of Mordor? Nope, just a clan of shrieking hyenas in a show of force, chasing lions off a kill.

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11 February marks Inventors' Day in the US (and, rather aptly, it's also the birthday of Thomas Edison, one of history's most prolific inventors). To mark the occasion, we're looking back on some the coolest inventions that caught our eye in 2012.

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This is exactly why bats are the new cats. These adorable orphaned bats are being looked after at an Australian animal clinic until they can be released into the wild.

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They've seen the climate change, nations rise & fall and they've stood rooted as humans have transformed almost every inch of the planet ... check out this cool infographic of the earth's oldest trees.

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We're quite enchanted by this real-time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand.

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It's known as an "arribada" and it's one of the most astonishing nesting spectacles in nature: thousands of female olive ridley turtles come ashore en masse to lay their eggs.

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A (pretty magical) video of a swirling murmuration of starlings got us thinking about other curious and unusual animal collective nouns. A pungent of sasquatch, anyone?

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Turns out those poor, persecuted katydids just want to be more like dragons (oh, and they'd also like poison arrows to shoot out of their backsides).

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Resistance is futile. This video of Harley the hedgehog meeting Loki the kitten is cuteness at its high-definition, unabashed best.

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