The lynx does not leap at its prey from the branches of trees, contrary to popular belief, but ambushes it on the ground.

🇬🇷 A woman working outside her house in Crete, 1920s, original autochrome colour photo

An incredible tunnel of blooming bougainvillea

The weight of different seal species can vary from 30-40 kg. to two and a half tons😱

A priest holding mass in the trenches, WWI, 1917

🫧 Strange white bubbles of different sizes can be seen in the ice of Lake Baikal every winter

This is a gas that forms at the bottom of the lake and freezes in the ice. If you drill a small hole in such a bubble and light it with a match, it will catch fire like a gas cooker.

Salpa — "transparent fish"

Bizarre transparent creature resembling hardened jelly to the touch. In fact, it is not a fish or even a jellyfish. It is a highly odd chordate animal of the shellfish subtype. They have a sack-shaped body surrounded by a shell or mantle of tunicin, a material similar to cellulose.

Nazi and Soviet soldiers socializing following the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion and division of Poland, September 1939

A soldier lost her ear in a car accident. So the doctors grew her a new one – in her forearm

The fox detects the mouse deep under the snow by ear, then estimates the depth of the snow, the directions of the mouse movement and dives.

A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD), located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China

Chinese brand NIO has put together an electric car that shakes itself out of the snow.

A tornado in the province of Alberta, Canada. April 12, 2025.

The eruption of the Sakurajima volcano, Japan. April 13, 2025.

Hippos frequently ravage fields in the countryside

In ancient Egypt it was they, not locusts, that were considered the scourge of the fields.

🇳🇱 A milkman in the Netherlands, 1956

🇺🇸 State of California, USA

This is a dolphin migration near the coast of San Diego.

You should only be afraid of owls when they are protecting their offspring.

Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, who ruled as King of Hungary and Croatia between 1301 and 1305, and King of Bohemia and Poland from 1305. Illustration from the 15th century Chronica Hungarorum.

In 2010, Jerry Douthett's dog bit off his toe when he was deep asleep. When he went to the hospital, it turned out that the toe had an infection that would have spread out and caused irreparable damage if left unnoticed. The dog thus saved his owner's life.