MBARI researchers have discovered a never before captured on video swimming sea slug, also known as bathydevius caudactylus. It’s been nicknamed the ‘mystery mollusc’ and can be found in the ocean’s midnight zone, complete with its large gelatinous hood, paddle-like tail, and bioluminescence.
Inventor Caleb Olson unveils the Poopcopter, an innovative drone system designed to pick up after your dog. Put simply, the quadcopter is capable of being guided to the approximate location of the dog poop before using a downward-looking camera and retrieval system to grab the offending package.
You’ve seen the crab nebula, now observe what happens when a robot king crab spy encounters a stingray. We won’t keep you hanging, so what happens is that some of its king crab friends start swarming together and form pods.
Photo credit: NASA
Kristina Dutton’s ‘Nanoscapes’ short film shows what butterfly wings look like under an electron microscope at up to 50,000x magnification. Butterfly wings are basically made of chitin, a fibrous substance that’s also found in the exoskeletons of most insects, and scales.
Filmmaker Pawel Achtel shot this incredible underwater whale footage with his custom-built 18.7K cinema camera. This innovative 9×7 digital cinema camera was housed inside a custom-designed Vanquish underwater case, complete with modified Nikonos submersible lenses.
Photo credit: Nathan Angelakis
Scientists have strapped actions cameras onto sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) to identify previously unmapped benthic habitats used by the animals on the continental shelf. A total of 89 hours of footage allowed the team to identify six benthic habitats: macroalgae reef, macroalgae meadow, bare sand, sponge/sand, invertebrate reefs, and invertebrate boulder.
We know the Insta360 X4 action camera is waterproof, but can it handle sharks? Swiss filmmaker Zimy wanted to find out, and in 8K, so he equipped his with an Invisible Dive Case before going diving with tiger sharks.
