The Marvelous Spatuletail, found in just one valley in northern Peru and is one of the rarest hummingbirds on Earth. [📹 Alex Fine]

If you see a spider climbing and standing on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upwards, then releasing silk threads into the air, it's because it's on the brink of ballooning. Using ballooning, spiders can reach altitudes of up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) and travel hundreds of miles. They are often the first pioneers to colonize new volcanic islands and have even been found landing on ships in the middle of the ocean. While scientists historically believed that wind alone lifted the spiders, modern research proves they also harness the Earth’s global atmospheric electrical circuit. The silk threads pick up negative static charges, which are repelled by the negative charge of the ground, lifting the spider into the air even on completely windless days.