CRAZY STUFF

This week’s photos have all of the essential ingredients needed to thoroughly insult your intelligence. Not only will it be insulted, but spat upon, frowned at, demagnetized, and living with some crazy relatives in Norway.

The World’s First-Ever Cycle?

Academic Xu Quan Long has taken his bizarre contraption to the streets of Beijing to show people his discovery – which has raised more than a few eyebrows with other road users.

10 Facts You May Not Know About April Fools’ Day

We’re just a few days from April 1, a notorious time for hoaxes. We could have waited, but we figured you might not trust these 10 facts if they were printed on April Fools’ Day. All indeed are true. Really. No kidding. We promise.

Stunning Photos of Sleeping Insects Covered in Dew

Glistening in the early morning, these insects look like creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their sleeping bodies. Captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig.

Top 10 Photos of the Week

If the fabric of time was rewoven by the weavers of fate, then the outcome of the setup would be inversely proportional to the predestination of the fatalist’s loom. If, however, the work was being done on a Wednesday, then all bets are off.

Chinese Doctors Remove Boy’s Extra Fingers and Toes...

Six-year-old boy told he will be able to hold chopsticks in a few months  Shenyang, Liaoning – Li Jinpeng, a 6-year-old boy born with 15 fingers and 16 toes, is happy he will soon be able to wear a normal pair of shoes.

Doctors at the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, Liaoning province, successfully removed Li’s additional fingers and toes in a surgical operation that lasted more than five hours on Tuesday.

Before the surgery, Li, the son of migrant workers from Heilongjiang province, was believed to be the world record holder for having the maximum number of fingers and toes. 

New Human Species Discovered

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has sequenced ancient mitochondrial DNA from a finger bone of a female found in southern Siberia. She comes from a previously unknown human species, which lived about 48,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.

Amazing Animal Photography – The Art of the Animal

Animals bring a rare form of beauty to the world around us. Their lives exist like ours, with seemingly endless tedium followed by brief moments of something spectacular. The following are a series of photos that do a terrific job of capturing the spectacular moments. Some are downright breathtaking.