While up-close photos taken of Iceland’s erupting volcano are impressive, some footage captured by a drone is equally stunning. This fissure, named Geldingadalsgos, marks the first time that the volcano Fagradalsfjall has been active in 800 years, but luckily it has been expected for a couple of weeks and there have been no injuries reported. […]
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Scientists have captured world-first drone footage of a pod of orcas hunting and feeding on dusky dolphins.
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Groundbreaking drone footage has revealed how the world's fastest fish spectacularly changes color right before it kills.
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Incredible drone footage taken in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa shows a pod of angry dolphins seeing off a great white shark. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-11 21:59
Remarkable 4K drone footage filmed in southeast Kentucky this morning shows the extent of the damage caused by flooding.
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Bulldog Aerials founder Todd McKee shot this amazing 4K drone footage of a giant perfect circle of spinning ice that appeared in the middle of a Maine river. “Mother Nature created this perfect circle in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine,” writes McKee, a former associate director at ABC News. “It is about 100 yards […] petapixel.com »
2019-01-17 19:12
Narwhals are famous for their long ivory tusks, which reach lengths of up to nine feet. Documentary filmmaker Adam Ravetch and Fisheries and Oceans Canada used video captured by drones to discover a previously unknown use for the tusk: it's used to tap and stun fish before eating them. dpreview.com »
2017-05-17 22:54
Check out this creative “2D” video of an urban parkour-style runner, shot top-down using a drone. It’s like old video game views, recreated in real life. The 3.5-minute project was created over in Bulgaria by athlete and stunt artist Ilko Iliev and photographer Marin Kafedjiiski. petapixel.com »
2017-01-21 21:18
It’s only four days into 2017, and already we have a contender for the most cinematic drone footage of the year. This short clip, shot by FPV drone user Gab707, would be right at home at the beginning of a Lord of the Rings movie. petapixel.com »
2017-01-05 01:20
GoPro will be announcing its new Karma camera drone on September 19th, and the company has been sharing video teasers to drum up excitement for the unveiling. The latest teaser, the 45-second clip above, is titled “Karma is Close. petapixel.com »
2016-09-09 18:25
Incredible new footage shows the Sakurajima volcano erupting in Kyushu, Japan today, spewing volcanic ash high into the air and causing Japanese authorities to issue an ash advisory. [Read More]
NASA's 23-year-old Odyssey Mars orbiter is days away from celebrating an incredible milestone: 100,000 trips around Mars. To mark the record-setting occasion, NASA has released a new image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system. [Read More]
A photographer waited three years to capture these epic shots of the northern lights above an erupting volcano.
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A 31-year-old woman holidaying in Indonesia has died after falling 250 feet into an active volcano.
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Shocking drone footage shows a huge crack literally splitting apart an Icelandic town, as the country warns of a potential major volcanic eruption. [Read More]
Researchers from the University of Sheffield in England have developed a relatively affordable sulfur dioxide (SO2) camera that may help predict volcanoes, providing essential warnings to nearby communities and facilitating earlier evacuation and preparation. [Read More]
A team of National Geographic explorers led by Renan Ozturk and Emma Nicholson was able to reach the summit crater of Mount Michel -- a remote stratovolcano -- and confirm the existence of one of nature’s rarest phenomenons: a lava lake. [Read More]