It's the that's giving us the hebbie-jebbies, but we can't turn away. The guys behind the YouTube channel head into the Amazon and get up close and personal with a tailless whip scorpion. The says are powerful arachnids, with 10 thin, whip-like legs for trapping their pray. The 4-minute you how the Smarter Every Day team puts that strength to the test by placing the scorp on places we'd never dare to let a scorp crawl! MORE ON WEATHER.COM: When...

Johannesburg, South Africa Chantal Beyer and her husband Sven Fouche, left, pose for a photograph with rhinos at the Aloe Ridge Nature Reserve near Johannesburg South Africa last weekend. Just after the photo was taken, the closest rhino attacked Beyer and its horn penetrated Beyer's chest from behind, resulting in a collapsed lung and broken ribs. (AP Photo/Thom Peeters, Family Handout) The husband who saw his new bride gored by a rhino is giving more insight on the attack that...

Family Friendly Fun (Courtesy of the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas) Every year, millions of us come face-to-face with stingrays, squid, and sharks—and we do it without ever leaving dry land. Aquariums are much more than just oversized fish tanks, offering a wonderful opportunity for us to discover an underwater world and view aquatic creatures up close. It’s not surprising that the best aquariums also tend to be the most kid-friendly, providing a fun environment that fosters discovery through hands-on...

Need to Get Away? It's the middle of January and we're in the heart of winter. Northern towns , and recent snowy scenes have been a common backdrop for millions. However, some towns haven't been dragged into the doldrums of winter. Check out our list of five cities that have seen warmer-than-average days in the coldest month of the year. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images) The mere mention of Phoenix conjures up images of a desert baking in triple-digit heat. Naturally, it's...

All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 "the Dreamliner" parks on the tarmac at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (Associated Press) The investigation into Boeing's troubled 787 Dreamliner aircraft is now linked to a company which also supplies batteries to the International Space Station. Bloomberg reports that Japan-based battery maker GS Yuasa Corp. "won a contract in August to supply lithium-ion battery cells to help power the International Space Station." The lithium-ion batteries are at the center of the...

Slick roads create frightening moments in Russia when a baby is ejected from of a car into oncoming traffic, according to the Telegraph. The video shows the white SUV crossing the white line, then over-correcting and losing control. An oncoming vehicle hits the back of the SUV and the impact throws the one-year-old out of the SUV into oncoming traffic. You can see cars swerve to avoid the child before an adult can get out of the car to scoop...

Paris People walk in the snow-covered Champs-Elysees in Paris after the snow fell over the French capital this week. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images) While snow has disrupted travel and closed schools across Europe this week, the white blanket has created some amazing scenes. Here are some of our favorite European landmarks covered in snow. MORE ON WEATHER.COM Weather 'Bucket List': Things to See Before You Die10 Shocking Snow Cities25 Dogs in Snow to Melt Your Heart ...

Take a high-speed camera into the Amazon rainforest, and you'll capture amazing things you can't see with the naked eye. That's exactly what the creators behind the "Smarter Every Day" YouTube channel discovered when they took a Phantom Miro camera into South America's massive jungle. One the moments that wowed the crew was captured in the video above, when they were able to film a butterfly leaping off a leaf at 2,000 frames per second. You can see more of...

An elephant attacks a camera trap installed by Aaranyak, a conservation group tracking tigers in India. (TCRI/Aaranyak ) Elephants really, really hate camera flashes. When conservation biologist Firoz Ahmed installs camera traps in Kaziranga National Park, in northeastern India's Assam state, he and his colleagues must return every day to check on the reinforced metal boxes. Often, the cameras have been torn down and trampled. Because the traps are installed in pairs to capture each side of a passing tiger,...

Two new videos capture frightening minutes after a Turkish plane was hit by lightning in mid-air. The Associated Press reports the Turkish Airlines plane had taken off from Istanbul late Thursday and was en route to Izmir when lightning struck, setting one of the engines on fire. (MORE: 15,000 Crocodiles Released from Farm) The video above shows the plane on fire, looking like a fireball streaking through the sky. It was shot by NTV television. The second video shows you...

(LOOK Die Bildagentur der Fotografen GmbH / Alamy) Check-in for Vegas Fun Sure, regular visitors have their favorites, but Vegas isn’t for loyalists. It’s for seekers of the hottest, the newest, the now. And lately, they want to be seen at the , where a massive chandelier conceals a three-story bar and casino cabanas overlook the Strip. So it’s no surprise that the attention-grabbing Cosmopolitan gets more check-ins on Foursquare than any other casino in Vegas. The social site, which...

You last saw Scotland's rolling countryside as the setting for the explosive final scenes of Skyfall, the latest James Bond flick. Now, the nation's new featuring a pair of shetland ponies in sweaters is swiftly becoming an internet sensation. Meet Fivla and Vitamin, the faces of VisitScotland's '' campaign. Fivla and Vitamin are internet sensations in their new tourism campaign. (cometoscotland.com) The shetland ponies are native to Scotland's with the same name. The sweaters aren't just any old fabric, either....

A scenice fall view of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Blue Ridge, Virginia. (iWitness weather user: Lilith) LYNCHBURG, Va. — Fewer visitors toured the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2012 and Superstorm Sandy and high gas prices may have played a role. The News and Advance of Lynchburg reports that visits dropped 1 percent from the previous year to the parkway's second-lowest level in nearly three decades. (More: ) That 1 percent decline translates to about 177,000 less travelers along the...