Photo of the Day: A peacock named Eliot at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida

Photo by Kristi Campbell (Saint Augustine, FL); Weeki Wachee Springs

Photo of the Day: Horsing Around.

Photo by: Jack Powers (Wichita, KS); Central City, Iowa.

Adorable Photos of Two New Cheetah Cubs at the National Zoo!

But that little female is a fighter. Once we got her breathing, she just kept going. It was a very intense, stressful experience, but among the most inspiring of my career. - Adrienne Crosier, cheetah biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Ed note: Check out Smithsonian.com for more info on the remarkable birth of these cheetah cubs.

Timelapse of Metamorphosis

A frog and a flatfish undergo metamorphosis in a timelapse video.

Ed note: Meet the salamanders of Wisconsin who refuse to grow up.

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A two-day-old baby Asian elephant gets used to his wobbly legs while exploring his enclosure at Tierpark Berlin zoo. The male elephant calf, who does not have a name yet, weighs 102kg and is 91cm tall Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images