Category: Animals
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Stunning Winged Insects Made of Discarded Circuit Boards
Portsmouth, UK-based artist Julie Alice Chappell creates beautiful miniature sculptures of insects using circuit boards found inside discarded electronics. “My art practice involves breaking down the pre-existing materials, reinterpreting them and offering them a new form with new purpose, creating something beautiful, whimsical and precious,” she said. It all started several years ago when she…
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Animals That Really Want to Be Photographers!
Watch out, photographers! Looks like someone is trying to take your job! Over the past few years we’ve seen a number of hilarious photos of animals looking as if they’re about to take pictures. Rather than being the subject of a photo, they want to be the one snapping it. And we’re not just talking…
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More Incredible Miniature Paintings by Lorraine Loots
Lorraine Loots, an expert at creating tiny art “for ants,” is back with a new series of mind-bogglingly small (and beautiful) paintings of animals, space, and her favorite books. We previously highlighted her amazing miniatures HERE, as part of her ‘miniature painting every day for a year’ project. She plans to create 100 mini paintings…
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Animals Licking Glass That Have No Idea How Silly They Look
There are plenty of reasons for animals to lick stuff around them, but by far our favorite is when they use their tongues to explore the strange mysterious invisible forcefields known to us as ‘glass.’ Dogs, cats and other creatures use their tongues to explore the world around them, so they’re just trying to figure…
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This is the Final Photo Atif Saeed Captured Before This Lion Charged Him
Photographer Atif Saeed captured this intense photograph of a male lion growling at him back in 2012 in a safari park in Lahore, Pakistan. The photo was captured just moments before the angry cat rushed at the photographer. Saeed was driving through the park in January 2012 when he spotted the lion a short distance away. He…
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Amazing Hand-Blown Glass Creatures By Scott Bisson
Scott Bisson, a passionate glass blower living in Oregon, creates wonderful hand-crafted glass-blown creatures with beautiful and subtle colors. He often chooses to portray aquatic creatures or amphibians whose natural forms match well with the flowing qualities of the molten glass that he shapes. Bisson’s career as a glass blower began in high school when…
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Beautiful Photos of Children And Animals By Russian Photographer Elena Karneeva
Children’s relationships with animals and with each other are free of many of the misconceptions and unfounded fears that can infect our minds later in life. It is this innocence that Elena Karneeva, a professional child and family photographer based in Moscow, captures in her beautiful photos of children and animals. The children in each…
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Look Again: This Chameleon is Actually Two Painted Women
Johannes Stötter, an incredibly talented bodypaint artist from Italy, has created a video to show us exactly how his amazing illusory body art “unfolds,” showing us the full transition from the chameleon we think we see in his art to the two painted women that actually compose the image. It took Stötter 4 hours to…
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The Cutest Orphaned Baby Bats Cared for by Australian Bat Clinic
File this under “cutest thing we’ve ever seen.” These orphaned baby bats, swaddled in cozy blankets and fed milk in baby bottles, are the incredibly adorable residents of the Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Centre in eastern Australia’s Gold Coast Hinterland. Volunteers and employees at the clinic work tirelessly to care for sick, injured,…
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Magnificent Dinosaur and Creature Origami by Adam Tran!
Origami artist and chemistry teacher Adam Tram folds some incredibly beautiful objects with paper. From dinosaurs and skeletons to flowers and warriors, it seems nothing is off limits to his folding abilities. Tram is a member of the Vietnam Origami Group, and you can see many more of his pieces on Flickr. And don’t forget, if you’re looking…