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Ol Pejeta Conservancy

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The last male northern white rhino, Sudan, named after where he was born and captured as a baby, gave up the ghost recently.  The entire northern white rhino species is now down to just his daughter and granddaughter.  Ugh! The likely last domicile of the...

The Bald Eagles Of Pittsburgh

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Bald eagles!  Get your patriotic as F bald eagles here! I've lived in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania my entire immortal long-legged life.  Yes, I'm what you would call a yinzer. yinz·er ˈyinzər/noun/USinformal a native or inhabitant of the US city of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. "I walked...

Sloth Robs Restaurant At 1 MPH

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What happens when you are a sloth and you crave danger instead of just living a basic existence of eating leaves, pooping on the ground, and being slow AF? You go full on slow gangsta and commit a crime spree that would make OJ proud. Don't...

Juggernaut Swine Dumpster Dives For Dinner

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Check out this porker! I've been seeing this ridiculously huge razorback all over the usual viral channels today.  In the picture there is an unnaturally large boar trying eat some of that good garbage.  Oh, and there are large fatty-cake piglets along for the ride...

Horrifying Prehistoric Spider Relative Found Encased In Amber

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Are you ready for some nightmare fuel?  Behold, Chimerarachne yingi! This 100 million spider cousin was discovered in an amber market in Myanmar.  Luckily, for any of you that find this thing horrifying, this lineage of arachnid is long since extinct. And it is horrifying!  Look at...

Snake Fight Club

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Check this out! This picture made the viral rounds lately on the Interwebs.  In the picture you have a death knot involving a king cobra and a reticulated python.  Yes, both are dead - the python presumably by poison and the cobra by strangulation. What happened...

A Non-Technical Review Of The Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens

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With the arrival of the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens, I had to get that bad mutha out and about for a test drive.  Ya know, gear-lust needs to be satisfied and all. If you need a technical review of the lens then...

A Proper Wildlife Lens

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I take pictures of wildlife, but I am no photographer. As a photographer, I have had zero training and I barely know how to work my camera.  That doesn't stop me from taking pictures of wildlife and then punishing yinz with the piss-poor quality of...

This Week In Nature – January 28

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Stormy mutha f'n Daniels! Sex:  Stormy Daniels is so good at making the sex that people pay her to do it on camera. She has been out there for years just banging away - dudes, women, and allegedly The Donald! And do you know what The...

This Week In Nature – January 21

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This week in nature is about one absolutely stunning thing.  This...so much of this... I feel that the leading driver in wildlife conservation is educating people about how cool wildlife is.  People that think wildlife is cool are motivated to donate time, money, and energy...