The largest living tortoise

The leatherback turtle, or the lute, has a shell up to 2 meters long. Its head is so huge that it does not retract under the shell.

🇬🇧 Children sledding in Shotley Bridge, UK, 1903

An Origami woman in dress, folded from a single square of paper

Chasing waves in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹

Greek soldiers at an artillery post, ready to defend Athens, WWI, 1916

The last Polio patient who lived with an Iron Lung

Foxes can produce about forty different sounds.

🇩🇰 Danish children in folk dress for a festival, February 1937

A robot ran a half marathon in Beijing

The athletic android called Tiangong covered 21 kilometres in 1 hour and 57 minutes.

The nutria is a semi-aquatic mammal from the order of rodents, the only species in the nutria family.

Children playing, 1948

Uncanny resemblance

The dolphin started posing and flipping when he saw I was snapping a picture of it.

Irish republican internees at Ballykinlar Internment Camp during the Irish War of Independence, 1920

CatTok cat communication app

In the demonstration video, the pet is told he's missed, and he comes running right away.

The app has a set of meows that elicit different reactions from your cat.

As a bonus, the authors promise the following: you will get to know your pet better thanks to the app.

Giant tortoises from the Aldabra Islands of the Seychelles

These slow-moving giants can weigh up to 250 kilos and measure up to 120 cm in carapace size. The neck of these turtles can extend out of their shells to a full meter, allowing them to pluck branches from trees and bushes.

Chinese children from a wealthy family, c. 1900

At a festival in India, an error by pyrotechnicians caused all fireworks to go off in a few seconds. The show was supposed to last for an hour.

This rare deep-sea octopus is called Opisthoteuthis californiana. The second word in the name is commonly replaced by "charming" for its large eyes and surprisingly cute appearance of the octopus.

🇪🇸 A mother and her children, Spain, c. 1920s

Nvidia trained robots on footage of Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, and Kobe Byrant