Animal eyes up close: photos by Suren Manvelyan

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Tuesday 21 May 2013

It wasn’t that long ago that our brains melted at the sight of Suren Manvelyan’s gorgeous macro human eye shots. Now we’ve discovered that Manvelyan also has a pictorial series of animal eyes in their full unflinching glory. Might be just us and our untrained peepers, but a stingray’s eye looks alarmingly close to a [...]

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Funniest Faced Monkeys

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By Eugenia Viti in New Trends on Thursday 16 May 2013

Sometimes humor at the simplest form can really hit the spot. Check out these funny monkey faces and brighten your day. I think the descriptions are just as funny as the pictures, and also somewhat informative on why the monkey looks the way it does.

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Animal ninjas in their element

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 9 May 2013

Nature is great. Some animals have the art of camouflage down pat, disappearing right into their surroundings. Christian Ziergler captured some amazing pictures of these creatures at their mimicry best for National Geographic, and you can try to locate sneaky leaf-little toads and the such in this interactive image gallery.

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Back to school: Awesome Animal Alphabet by Mat Mabe

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By Annie Churdar in New Design on Saturday 27 April 2013

Let’s get back to basics. “O” is for Owl; “F” is for Fox. This cute animal alphabet by Mat Mabe puts a modern spin on the age-old tradition of teaching children their letters with the help of little pictures. I would love a large poster or book of these prints. Go on, order one for [...]

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Now your guinea pig can be fashionable too

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Fashion on Thursday 25 April 2013

Let’s face it, a naked guinea pig is a boring guinea pig. Thankfully, a Japanese website called Guinea Pig Fashion makes tiny little outfits for your guinea pig to strut its stuff in. They create clothes for all occasions, such as weddings, ninja outings, or even when your guinea pig wants to look like Harry [...]

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Weird animal combinations by Gyyp

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By Sublime Silence in New Trends on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Artist Gyyp likes to blend different species. That’s it. He uses all his Photoshop skills to create unexpected combinations like Slawk, Killer Penguin, Heagle and so on. Some species are actually cute, like the Guinea Bear. But most of his stuff is just plain weird.

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Zombie Knit: tiny knitted zombies by Sophia Viney

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By Donya Todd in New Products on Sunday 21 April 2013

Sophia Viney runs designer toy brand Zombie Knit. She knits, crochets and embroiders, handmaking each toy with all the undead love and cuteness they need. Viney has health problems and is often out of action. She uses this time to knit, make up stories, and create comics using her quirky characters. I call her my [...]

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Little girl frolics with 14 German Shepherds: has the best damn childhood

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By Eugenia Viti in Video on Tuesday 16 April 2013

So I think we officially found the girl with the coolest childhood. This little girl is just playing with a 14 German Shepherds and they are all loving it. If you look closely, you can see the little pups hidden in the grass as well.

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Pandas watching panda porn to get them to mate

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 10 April 2013

Pandas in captivity are notoriously shy and selective when it comes to getting frisky. With female pandas losing their sexual appetite when they are just fertile for three days every year, a panda breeding and research centre in China decided to play a pair of pandas some panda porn — basically, footage of pandas mating [...]

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The Transformer Owl

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Thursday 4 April 2013

Spoiler ahead: owls behaving wickedly. This owl, as seen on a Japanese variety show, knows at least two ways to scare off other beaky threats: puff and fluff up (cute) or supershrink into what looks like a cross between Lord Voldemort and Megatron. It’s a hoot. According to another YouTube user who uploaded another clip [...]

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Bizarre hybrid animal sculptures by Dutch duo Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker

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By Hunter Oatman-Stanford in New Art on Friday 8 March 2013

Idiotsis the Dutch artist duo Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker, whose work combines taxidermied animal parts with industrial or domestic materials. The contrast is always striking, but I particularly love their more abstract pieces, like Ophelia, which merges the torso of a sleeping lion with glistening droplets of copper glass.

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Proof that dolphins are early adopters of technology

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Tuesday 5 March 2013

When Vimeo user Mark Peters built a torpedo rig for his GoPro camera and dipped it underwater 20 miles west of Santa Cruz, he didn’t count on a bunch of tech-loving Pacific white sided dolphins to show up next. While there’s been some controversy about whether the footage was CGI-rigged or secretly seeded by GoPro, [...]

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This fox is ready for his close-up

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Photographers Dan Dinu and Cristian Goga captured this incredible shot of a curious fox taken in St. Ana Lake, Romania. Apparently, the photogenic fox had been raised by a forest ranger, which explains why he was so ready for his close-up.

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Ridiculously cute photos of baby giraffes sleeping

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By Tristan Rayner in New Photography on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Have you ever seen something look so uncomfortable and adorable at the same time? These cute baby giraffe pictures seem like the perfect time to bring you this fun fact: adult giraffes also have incredibly low sleep needs, with most sleeping between just a few minutes to an hour a day. Most nap standing up, [...]

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Wonderful macro photos of colourful starfish by Alexander Semenov

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Wednesday 27 February 2013

These stunning macro photographs of starfish look like images of vibrant underwater foliage. Thanks to Russian photographer and biologist Alexander Semenov, we can better understand the colourfully-patterned surfaces of these magnificent creatures.

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