This incredible model of a Japanese castle is so small it is about the thickness of a human hair, as can be seen in this image. The 0.217-millimeter model of Fukuyama Castle is so tiny, it is all but invisible to the naked eye and it was made by a…
This mutant, hairless baby goat has been piquing the curiosity of everyone who sees him on the small farm he was born on in Turkey. Huseyin and Aysel Tosun work in agriculture and animal husbandry in the village of Ciris, in the district of Erdemli, in the southern province of…
Three giraffes have died after escaping from a cramped quarantine centre where they were forced to live among their own faeces after arriving in Brazil from South Africa. Animal rights groups have criticised the giraffes’ deaths, claiming they were being kept in a small facility that was unsuitable for such…
This cute baby armadillo has been born to first-time parents Vespa and Scooter at a US zoo and as can be seen in this footage of it crawling around on a blanket it is so small it can fit in the palm of a human hand. The southern three-banded armadillo…
These small fish rub against great white sharks and a new study argues that it could be so they can exfoliate their skin and remove parasites. A team of researchers led by the University of Miami (UM) Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric…
Vienna’s Natural History Museum has discovered 33 new species of snails that lived millions of years ago after unboxing them from their 150-year storage. The Museum of Natural History in Vienna even named one of the newly-discovered species after the Austrian capital, christening the small snail Mitrella viennensis. The snails…
These remarkable images getting up close and personal with some of the more colourful and fascinating sea creatures are a photographer's attempts to remind us to do more to protect the natural world. Toni Bertran, 45, always wanted to dive as a youngster after being inspired by the work of…
This is the moment Argentinian cops rescue 80 exotic birds and two tortoises from a makeshift hatchery located in the middle of a city where they were kept in squalid conditions in small metal cages. Cops from the Special Operations Division of the city police raided the premises located at…
Pandemic pranksters have stolen the signs leading in and out of the small Austrian town of St. Corona am Wechsel. St. Corona am Wechsel, consisting of only 392 inhabitants, is located in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. Due to the pandemic, road signs bearing…
A fishing boat that went missing during a powerful Japanese tsunami has been found 10 years later on a small Pacific island. The small fishing vessel went missing from the city of Kesennuma in the prefecture of Miyagi in the north-eastern Japanese region of Tohoku following the Great East Japan…