How Fentanyl and Xylazine are turning Philadelphia’s opioid crisis into a public health nightmare by Nukro666

During her 15 years of life, Chaser the border collie displayed a remarkable knack for nouns – one that withstood the tests of Neil deGrasse Tyson. by blablablacksheeeep

A 6 foot 8 alligator gar, a living fossil that’s survived unchanged for 100 million years. by Jeetchat

This is Jeanne Calment – who sold her house at the age of 90 to her lawyer M. Raffray. Under the contract, she could live in the house until she died and receive 2,500 Francs per month from him. Jeanne went on to live to 122 years of age outliving M Raffray. She stopped smoking [...]

Seagulls in Istanbul learned how to ‘meow’ to trick the stray cat feeding machine into giving them food. by serozr

An optical Illusion that doesn’t want to break even if you know the trick by Lui_Belmont

A man created this work called “What I’m Seeing” by cool-kid-2025

Transformers as a voice command activate toys and modernising the toy industry…. by godfather_wanderlust

Toyohiro Akiyama was the first Japanese person sent to space. He was not a trained astronaut, scientist, nor an engineer. He was a TV reporter who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. When asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said “I can’t wait to have a smoke”. [...]

This curved path helps prevent bullets from hitting each other’s primers during production by fvkinglzy

Incubating a turtle egg outside of the shell. (Don’t unmute) by Debaucherousgeek73

The magic of probability – The Galton board by Firm-Blackberry-9162

To fulfill her final text, ‘I want to go home,’ Yasuo Takamatsu has spent 15 years diving every week looking for his wife lost in the 2011 Japan tsunami. by thepoylanthropist

4 types of tigers in the same photo.This looks like they’re recreating their photo from the 90s. by Ashish_ank

A crab eating the dead skin from someone’s foot by TechnicianOk967

When you’re in a bird hide in South Africa and this happens.. by cosmic_voyager01

The “Green Stone” of Hattusa: A 2,200lb block of nephrite that sits alone in the ruins of the 3,000-year-old Hittite capital. Archeologists still have no idea why it’s there. by Ultimate_Thing

POV: British Army medic parachutes onto the island of Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to help a patient with suspected hantavirus by New_Libran

Somehow, a microbe got stuck under an oxygen bubble. The cell tried spinning, because that’s a good trick, and it managed to survive. by Thrawn911

Footage from the years 1919 and 1920 showing WWI veterans who were traumatized by the war. They displayed symptoms ranging from fear of war related objects and soldier’s attire to shakes and seizures to performing military drills. by mwale2007

A male turtle performing “claw fluttering” near the female’s face as a courtship ritual to attract her by Additional_Berry_977

Anton Thomas’s “Wild World” (2023) is a hand drawn cartographic masterpiece that reimagines the Earth as a unified wilderness by removing all man-made borders, cities, and human structures. Created over three years (July 2020 – July 2023) using only colored pencils and pens by cosmic_voyager01

The extension range on this loader’s arm by whybutts

Mary Ann Bevan: The nurse who worked as the “World’s Ugliest Woman” in a circus to provide for her 4 children after developing acromegaly, a disorder that distorted her facial features and caused intense headaches. by Kirlinternet

A cat managed to catch 27 mice and carefully lined them all up to show off his ‘work’ to his owner. by Kirlinternet

A serval’s reaction to touching ice for the first time by Additional_Berry_977

Flock cameras connecting to Palantir data centers seen recently added in nearby neighborhoods at homes that advise police on how to react to flagged incidents, log every person ever recorded into a database with license plate & facial recognition files of people who were ever detected by one. by noahstemann

This blind pregnant woman got her ultrasound 3D printed and couldn’t stop smiling by thepoylanthropist

One of only two surviving “plague doctor” masks (Germany, 1650ish) by Senor_Hyde_

Dog diagnosed with depression after miscarriage. Vets sent her to work with kids at a local school, and now she’s the happiest pup around by Beta_Minectaft