Category: Animals
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The 100 Most Amazing Photographs Ever Taken Without Using Photoshop
As we know, nature and humankind are both great artists, and when they join forces, amazing masterpieces can be produced. We’ve seen how clever artists utilise image altering technology such as Photoshop to ‘improve’ a captured image, but like most things there is no substitute for the real thing. As such, we’ve collected the 100 most amazing…
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Macro Photography of a Little-Known Poodle Moth That Looks Like a Fairy
We all know that nature gives us some of the most weird and wonderful flora and fauna. However this little guy – known as the mysterious Venezuelan Poodle Moth – may take the cake as one of the most unusual. Looking like a Pokemon/Furby/Fairy mix, this creature was first discovered in 2009 by zoologist Arthur Anker of…
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Realistic Goldfish Painted Using Layers of Watercolor and Resin
Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori never ceases to amaze us with what he can do with layers of resin and watercolor paint. He returns to Joshua Liner Gallery this week for his second solo show, Goldfish Salvation. Since we last featured Riusuke, he has become internationally known for his depiction of aquatic life painted with acrylic within layers of resin, most frequently the…
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Artist Draws an Amazing Blue Octopus Using Discarded Ballpoint Pens
Artist Ray Cincin has created a giant, beautifully illustrated bright blue Octopus from donated ballpoint pens that would have been otherwise discarded. The illustration, per Cincin, is his own “interpretation of an Ernst Von Haeckel octopus lithograph” and took him over a year to complete: “This drawing was in progress for over a year. A week here, a few days there, up…
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A chicken lover knits jumpers for her hens
Meet Nicola and her mother Ann from Cornwall, England. In one of the more touching stories we’ve encountered recently, these ladies rescue retired battery chickens by giving them a new home. They own around 60 hens and half of them are former battery chickens, who, unfortunately, having spent all their lives in cages, are not able to acclimatize…
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Artist Folds a New Paper Crane to Describe Each Day of the Year
Some people like to have a coffee everyday. Some people like to go for a run everyday. Well artist Cristian Mariancius is a little different. Following a bit of a quarter life crisis in 2014, he decided to create an origami paper crane every day as a unique personal journal. According to Cristian, “As a…
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Stunning Photography Documents the Macro Details of Colorful Hummingbirds
Photographer Chris Morgan loves Hummingbirds and photography. However as Hummingbirds are notorious for flapping their wings so incredibly fast that they create an audible hum and appear as a blur of feathers right before your eyes, they can be incredibly difficult to capture using photography. Not to be deterred, during a trip to Costa Rica, the…
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Fantasmical Photoshopped Animal Hybrids
Yes, we just made up the word “fantasmical”. But that’s the only way to describe one of our favorite subreddits, which is devoted entirely to creating amazing animal hybrids. A 40,000+ strong community of digital artists and fans of Hybrid Animals that are made possible with creativity and Photoshop know-how. There’s not much else we can…
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Are You Scared of Snakes? Why Not Put a Hat on It?
If you’re a fan of reddit you probably know there’s a sub-reddit section which covers almost anything you can think of. But did you know there’s a section which can alleviate your fear of snakes?! Yup, snakeswithhats is it! A little known fact is that Eve was convinced by a hat-wearing snake to offer the apple…
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Stunning Macro Photography of Native Bees and Other Insects
The USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program develop identification tools and keys for native bee species. As part of this process, they compile accurate and detailed pictures of native bees and the plants and insects they interact with. On Flickr, the USGS BIML has uploaded a staggering collection of over 2,600 high-resolution photographs that are in the public…