Cute or Ugly?

Does this video of Sugar Gliders make your cringe, or do they look like furry friends you’d like to play with? Watch the video below and then vote in our poll (to the right)!

Peacock Spider!

No, it’s not a spider with feathers, but it IS a spider with lots of color and personality. And just as peacocks put on a show when mating, so do these spiders – by displaying a flap-like extension of their stomach, raising their third set of legs, and doing a little dance. Men will stop at nothing to impress ladies, huh?! Watch this cool video below to see these guys in action!

Scrambled Stingrays, with a Side of Toast

We all know that birds eat fish, but who’s ever heard of birds eating mongo-sized sized stingrays? None, not even scientists, until recently…

Danny Dolan of Mississippi was out for a walk last week when he noticed a heron struggling to gulp down some large prey. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was, to his surprise,  a stringray; Danny grabbed his camera and took several shots, and, as he later found out, these images are the first-ever scientific evidence that birds eat stingrays

Stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—related to sharks. They’re named “stingrays” because they have a barbed stinger on their tail, used mainly for self-defense. But get this: the stinger can reach just over a foot, and is covered in a thin layer of skin in which there are venom glands! Yikes! That’s like drinking cobra juice! 

Want to read more? Check out a news article here, and make sure to read up on these fascinating fish in Weird n’ Wild creatures stingray card!