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The largest collection of live nature cams anywhere: bear falls, puppy rooms, osprey nests and coral reefs, all free and always running.
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Explore.org Live Cams sits in Nature & Animal Cams under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Nest cams, reef cams, feeders and trackers. The best possible thing to leave open on a second monitor and glance at occasionally.
Yes. Explore.org Live Cams is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Explore.org Live Cams without signing up for anything.
Yes. Explore.org Live Cams works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.
Cameras pointed at geysers, glaciers, harbours and whichever volcano is currently misbehaving, plus a northern lights feed in winter.
Live cameras on the kelp forest, the aviary and the open sea tank, plus a sea otter feed that has ended many working afternoons.
The live feed from a deep-sea research ship's remote submersible, complete with scientists audibly losing composure over a new sea cucumber.
A fidget spinner you flick with the mouse, with physics good enough that people leave it running in a spare tab.
A toy about synchronisation — a few hundred blinking dots that agree on a rhythm with no conductor anywhere.
Paint with thick wet oils that pile up, smear and catch the light exactly like the real thing, entirely in a browser tab.
One mystery country a day, guessed by warmth — every wrong answer shades the globe a little closer to the right one.
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