The Freaky

When a human is decapitated, they die almost immediately but if you are a sea slug you can survive for weeks and your head will eventually grow a new body.  Not only can these sacoglossan sea slugs survive without their body, but they have the ability to deliberately separate themselves from the body, by dissolving […]

A giant luminous shark has been discovered by scientists studying sharks off the coast of New Zealand.  Measuring almost 2 metres long, the Kitefin shark is now the world’s biggest known glow-in-the-dark vertebrate.  Living organisms that glow was once considered quite rare, with fireflies being the most well-known example,  but each year biologists are discovering more glowing […]

Two gorillas at a sanctuary in Africa have learnt to imitate humans by standing on two legs. The two standing gorillas, who were photographed posing for a selfie, live at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. The two gorillas were brought to the Senkwekwe Sanctuary orphanage and raised by the […]

A bald eagle that had tried to attack an octopus was found slowly being strangled by the octopus in remarkable footage captured by fisherman in British Columbia. A fish farm crew found the two creatures locked in a battle to the death in waters off Quatsino, British Columbia. The crews freed the bald eagle from […]

In an unlikely bromance, a retired Brazilian bricklayer and a penguin have become the best of friends.  In 2011 71-year-old  fisherman  Joao Pereira de Souza found a penguin on his local beach, north of Rio de Janeiro,  starving and covered in oil.  Joao took the penguin home. Cleaned his tarred fathers and nursed him back to health by […]

Scientists have come closer to understanding how a tiny beetle can withstand crushing forces of up to 39,000 times its body weight.  The Diabolical Ironclad Beetle  (a name that certainly reflects its skills) lives in parts of the US and Mexico.  The beetle is only around 2cm long but can survive being stepped on by a […]

This remarkable and strange video was posted by a Norwegian scientist. It shows a huge underwater blob that him and his team stumbled upon while diving in waters off the coast of Ørstafjorden, Norway. Ronald Raasch, a diver with the Norwegian research vessel REV Ocean, had been exploring a World War II shipwreck when at a […]

Most of us are suckers for a tropical island. Beautiful white sandy beaches, cocktails, cool sea breeze, sand between your toes.  But get this – all that sand down there..most of it came out of the wrong end of a fish. Yes really.  All that pristine white sand is actually made from the poop of […]

Wildlife photographers spend hours waiting for that perfect shot but when American amateur photographer Sam Davis took a photo of a heron plucking a snake eel from the water he had no idea how strange the photo would be.  When 59 year old Davis, from Maryland, photographed the heron with the eel he thought perhaps […]

Bees make honey from nectar right? Well not all bees. There is one type of bee – the Vulture bee – that makes its honey from rotting flesh. The Freaky has always considered the real world as strange and freaky as any sci-fi world and vulture bees are further proof of this.   Vulture bees (or Trigona […]

If you’ve ever been caught in a dust storm you’ll know how scary it can be and how it can feel like you are going to choke to death. So you might be surprised to learn that we wouldn’t have enough oxygen on the planet to breathe if it wasn’t for Saharan dust storms. Every […]

A hungry seagull has been filmed eating a rat whole in Rome. The bird swallows the rodent whole in a matter of seconds. Watch the freaky video below. Most people think seagulls exist be eating fish. But they have colonised many cities where they exist by ripping open discared rubbish bags to eat food discarded […]

This stunning video of a bird of prey carrying a baby shark is one of the strangest videos we have ever seen here at The Freaky. We had no idea a bird could do this, would even considering doing this, let alone have the balls to do it. The video was shot at Myrtle Beach, […]

Nature is not cute animals and flowers, it’s brutal, as this incredible series of photos shows. The photos capture the moment a zebra is caught and ripped apart by a crocodile while trying to cross the Mara river in Kenya. The photos were taken by Nimit Virdi, from Wellington, India, while on a game drive in […]

The strange but true tale of the 130 year old tortoise that adopted a baby hippo. In December 2004 unseasonably heavy rains on the East Coast of Kenya washed a family of hippopotamuses down the Sabaki River and out to sea. Locals from the town of Malindi, near Mombassa spotted the hippos and tried to […]

The corona virus now means much of the world is in lockdown. Bad news for humans but good news for wildlife. Across the globe nature is starting to reclaim town and cities.  In the town of Llandudno in Wales, United Kingdom, goats have come off the hills and occupied the town.  Local journalist Andrew Stuart […]

A shocking video circulating the internet shows the dangers of smoking Salvia.  The video shows a man preparing to plant the ornamental herb in his garden, before smoking some in a bong and then …..well we will let you watch the video to find out what happens next.  Salvia (scientific name: salvia divinorum) is a […]

Iguanas in Florida, USA have literally been falling out of trees due to the recent unseasonably cold weather.  Iguanas do not like cold weather. They start becoming sluggish when temperatures drop to 10C (50F), if the temperature drops further to around 4.5C  (40F) then their bodies shutdown and they become catatonic. In this frozen lifeless state […]

It is normally the man who catches the fish. But for one Indonesian man the roles were reversed when a flying needlefish stabbed the teen in the neck.  According to reports, Muhammad Idul was night fishing with his friend when his boat rode into a school of needlefish. The startled fish began jumping out of the […]

A chicken in Thailand lived for over 10 days after its head was chopped off. And in the process became an unlikely celebrity. The headless chicken was found in the Ratchaburi Province in central Thailand by Supakadee Arun Thong, a local vet. She had no idea how it had lost its head although she suspected it had […]

You don’t have to watch science fiction to find freaky creatures, there are plenty of them right here on planet Earth. Take this slime mold for example. Despite not having ears, eyes or even a brain this slime is capable of learning, solving puzzles and even making decisions. The slime’s technical name is Physarum polycephalum, but its […]

It’s the little things on Planet Earth that are often the most bizarre. These colourful caterpillars remind us how wonderfully strange nature is. What is even more remarkable is that this collection of odd caterpillars weren’t found in the depths of some isolated jungle but were collected from the parks, gardens and woodlands of the […]

It is commonly believed that the Amazon rainforest is essential for providing the oxygen we breathe. But this is a myth.  One single tree can produce enough oxygen to support two people. And the Amazon Rainforest is ten times the size of Texas, producing 20 times more oxygen than all the people on the surface […]

Remarkable new evidence has come to light to suggest that some birds of prey deliberately set fire to scrubland to flush out prey. Ornithologist Bob Gosford claims that arsonist birds are picking up burning twigs from existing fires and dropping them elsewhere to start new blazes. This sends small animals running to escape and the […]

Dolphins have been observed in the wild getting “high” on the toxins produced by pufferfish. The stunning footage, filmed for the BBC, captured a group of young dolphins very carefully provoking a pufferfish, also known as a blowfish, so that it would produce its dangerous toxin, which can kill if taken in large doses, but […]

Were you aware that alligators eat sharks? Well they do. Scientists recently discovered that American Alligators have developed a taste for small sharks, and stingrays too. In the first ever study of this weird nature phenomenon researchers at Kansas State University have documented American alligators feasting on four species of shark on the Pacific and […]

Crabs on Prozac are becoming aggressive, engaging in fights, and even killing each other while on the drug, scientists have discovered. Prozac is a pharmaceutical drug used to treat depression, and other mental health related conditions, in humans. To be clear, depressed crabs are not being prescribed Prozac by doctors (although the image of a […]

It sounds like something out of a horror story, but in Puerto Rico there is a species of tree that traps and kill baby birds, and then feeds on the bird’s nutrients.   Pisonia trees or “bird catching” trees are proof that nature is freakily cruel. From branches can be seen mummified bodies of bird […]

The Freaky brings you another strange but true story from the endlessly weird natural world …ant suicide bombers. When their colony is under attack the Apicotermitinae species of termites will explode their own stomachs showering their attackers with their excrement, but killing themselves in the process. The hope is that this weird behavior will be […]

A Praying Mantis has been photographed killing a hummingbird and eating its brain. As if that wasn’t freaky enough, it turns out that this wasn’t a one off – all around the world Praying Mantises are participating in similar behaviour. Researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland have just released a paper titled “Praying Mantises […]