Fancy adding a bit of prehistoric ambience to your humble abode? How about this dinosaur egg candle, which melts to “hatch” an adorable baby raptor. When lit, the beautiful 14cm-tall egg eventually melts away to reveal a creature hiding inside. Although…
Alexandra Mahjouri returned home last week to discover anyone’s worst nightmare; thieves had ransacked her home. Burglars had stolen passports, emptied her 4-year-old son’s piggy bank and taken every single Christmas present from under the tree. A devastated Alexandra took to Facebook…
What happens when you take two of the internet’s favorite animals and mash them together? Well, the brains behind pin-up cats, aka Rachel Aslett, has merged sloths and kittens to create… slittens. It starts out okay. In fact, kittens doing the…
We’ve shown you some pretty awesome cakes in the past, from a gory red velvet brain cake to a realistic roast turkey cake. But this might just be the best yet. Introducing the incredible plaid-filled lumberjack cake, complete with edible…
Foxes may be cute, but they can have a devastating effect on local wildlife. Indeed, they nearly wiped out a colony of little penguins from Middle Island, a beautiful, rugged island off the coast of southern Victoria, Australia. The catastrophe was averted when an Australian farmer…
Christoph Niemann, a cartoonist for the New York Times, kept himself entertained on his flight from New York to Berlin by drawing a totally accurate account of everyone’s experience of flying, ever. 6:52pm — take off! It’s all in the detail. Who’s hungry? Why…
When a lost and starving pitbull was wandering the woods outside of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, it seemed unlikely that he’d have a happy ending. Until he was found by “super-vet” Wilson Coutinho Martins. Wilson stumbled upon the heavily bleeding and horrifically…
There’s a whole lot of crazy Photoshopped animals floating around the internet, but these 17 hybrid species are 100% real and 100% awesome. #1. Male lion + female tiger = liger. Ligers are the biggest of the big cats, with…
An elderly passer-by surprised shoppers in Middlesbrough, UK, by stopping in his tracks and performing a jig by the city center Christmas tree. The man danced to a jazzy tune being played by a nearby busker before carrying on his…
Artist Ruth Oosterman and her 3-year-old daughter Eve are quite the creative team. Eve starts the pictures by scribbling on paper and Ruth adds paint to turn the marks into beautiful paintings. Eve uses felt-tip to get the painting started,…
Russian miner Ivan Kislov doesn’t spend his breaks in the staff room chomping on a soggy sandwich; he creeps out into the wilderness of Chukotka, Russia, to capture these gorgeous photographs of foxes. Ivan says that photography is his “relaxation from routine”. He enjoys…
What’s hotter than a bunch of sexy French firefighters taking their shirts off to raise money for charity? Nothing, that’s what. The money raised will be given to the NGO charity Pompiers Sans Frontières, a French organization that provides humanitarian aid.…
When this zoo-goer shows a curious orangutan a magic trick, the orangutan’s reaction is hilarious (not to mention freakishly human-like). The man produced a styrofoam cup and showed the monkey there was something inside it. “Alright, human, I’m listening.” He gave…
Yorkdale shopping mall in Toronto, Canada decided against the traditional mall santa this year. The replacement “Fashion Santa” is raising money for charity — and causing quite a stir online. This is Paul Mason, Canadian model and the hottest Santa the…
Donald Trump, as runner-up for Time’s Person of the Year, posed patriotically with a bald eagle this week for Time magazine. But things didn’t quite go as planned (much to the internet’s delight)… This is Uncle Sam, the bald eagle. And…
A wild boar in Germany took a fancy to a more civilized life, so he decided to befriend — and promptly move in with — a nearby herd of cows. Cattle farmer Dirk Reese says the boar has been living with…