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When you’re swimming with sharptoothed sealions, it’s a relief to realise they’re pleased to see you. But diver Don Carpenter still looks slightly uneasy as one of the animals plants a kiss on the top of his head. The photographer and his companions were surrounded by Californi...

Surprisingly, sometimes the best way to camouflage oneself is to stick with the herd: for example, when a lion walk by a bunch of zebras, it only sees a big striped mass. Some fish that are covered in bright vertical stripes might also be clearly visible when alone, but if a large group of...

Shunsuke is a 12-year-old Pomeranian with over 200,000 fans on Facebook. He lives in Japan with his human, Shun Mama. He is amazing. Hello, America! Meet Shunsuke. Shunsuke is a vision of everything that is good and perfect in the world. You can call him Shun for short. His hobbies ...

Overwhelmed with the modern condition, this Philippine Tarsier holds on for dear life. Teamfigparrot Which came first, the bunny or the egg? Here's a tiny sea turtle... ...followed by a tiny regular turtle. The smallest octopi species on record, the Octopus Wolfi. This is...

I want to find this cute. But then I look at the feet. THOSE FEET ARE LIKE ROOTY VEGETABLES. Aw, this one's cuddly! That's nice! OH GOD WHY IS ITS NOSE LIKE THAT OH GOD. Okay that's kinda cute. Sure, yes, that's nice. He's sleeping. Sleeping.... BUT WITH A ZOMBIE ARM. Fro...

Could you tell the difference between a human eye and the eye of a tiger python, or a lemur? This is the premise behind Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan's latest collection, which features extreme close-up images showing eyes of animals, birds and reptiles. The collection includ...

Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother’, chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Na...

These stunning images may look like extras from a sci-fi movie - but they are actually close up images of water fleas and other tiny creatures. Photographer and marine biologist Daniel Stoupin takes incredibly close-up photographs of the miniscule marine creatures - so they become almos...

When it comes to artistic ability, animals are anything but a blank canvas. These 7 amazing artistic animals not only show interest in the process of creating art, their finished work ranks with more than a few human abstract artists. The Creative Pouch Native to the Huon Peninsula o...

The five otters were sleeping peacefully in a Pacific Ocean kelp bed when they were given a rude awakening. Two quickfire whitecap waves surging towards a Californian shore abruptly roused the otters, who found themselves surfing the wash whether they wanted to or not. All five just ...

A café filled with cats looks set to open in London in the coming months, with thousands of feline fans set to battle it out to be the first through the door. Australian entrepreneur Lauren Pears revealed on Friday she is on the verge of signing a lease on a property in the capital...

A former champion race horse hasn’t let early retirement get him down after turning his attention to painting. Metro Meteor, a 10-year-old thoroughbred from rural Maryland, was forced to finish his racing career early because of his bad knees. He was adopted by Ron and Wendy Kr...

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A black and white sheep named after a Battenberg cake because of his two-toned face has shocked a family of farmers.     The lamb has a unique face, with one half light and the other dark, which may have saved it from freezing to death in the Welsh hills because ...

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Welcome to the roamin’ empire! Ancient Rome may have been founded by twin brothers raised by a wolf but these days, cats are the Eternal City’s top dogs. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the cats of Rome cluster in up to 2,000 “colonies” and are a familiar furry presence amo...

A heartbreaking video that recently went viral on YouTube shows a heartbroken wolf-dog laying over the gravestone of his owner’s grandmother,shaking and making what appear to be sobbing noises. Over the years I’ve posted some truly heartbreaking stories about dogs displaying their feel...

Today, animals of all kinds can be considered dangerous. Some on this list have been known to kill a lot of people. Some of them are beautiful animals. However, looks can kill. All animals listed here are deadly, and some of them were only found to be so in the last decade. You're going to...