Think about how tiny its brain and stomach and heart must be!

One of the smallest geckos in the world, Sphaerodactylus nicholsi.

Smoking was compulsory for schoolboys in the 17th century at England's famous Eton school because it was thought to prevent the plague.

The Dana octopus squid (Taningia danae) of the Pacific blinds its prey with flashes of light from its arms! It is believed that this highly maneuverable squid uses the bright flashes to disorientate potential prey. These flashes may also serve to illuminate the prey to make for easier capture as well as a courtship and territorial display.

Say hello to the California Red-Sided Garter Snake. Don't worry, they are only mildly venomous.

Meet the common spotted cuscus from Cape York in Australia and Papua New Guinea. To hide their golden coats from predators while they're sleeping in the trees, they curl leaves around their bodies like a blanket.

An international team of scientists has sequenced the coffee genome and has found that the caffeine in coffee plants evolved separately to the caffeine in tea plants.

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A new robotic 'smart suit' has been developed by FastCompany to give anyone from soldiers and fire-fighters to hiking enthusiasts and the elderly a bit of superhuman strength. It's lightweight, flexible, and can be worn under clothes.

According to its makers, "the suit works by mimicking the action of the leg muscles and tendons when a person walks, with an actuator system giving small, carefully timed assistance at the ankle and hip joints without restricting the wearer’s movement. The breakthrough is in the 'structured functional textiles' that transmit those applied forces all over the body during natural movement. Wearable, flexible sensors integrate into the fabric to gauge the body’s movement and provide support at the right moment." ...

These tiny chips have been designed to bring the capability of the Internet to everyday objects in your home. Think smart light globes, smart vacuum cleaners, and smart coffee makers, all communicating wirelessly with each other to cater to your every whim.

The RYNO is a cross between a segway, unicycle, and a scooter.

The bizarre helmeted hornbill is the only bird of its kind with a solid head 'casque', or helmet. They use these bony features to battle each other - ramming their heads together, in mid-air, for up to two hours at a time.

The Black Rain Frog (Breviceps fuscus) is native to South Africa and permanently looks grumpy.

An enormous tomb has been unearthed in northern Greece, guarded by two beautifully preserved female figures. It’s been dated to the time of Alexander the Great.

The sophistication of ants never ceases to amaze. New footage of an undocumented behaviour reveals a ‘daisy-chaining’ technique, in which ants link themselves together to haul large food away.

Launched into orbit three years ago, a vial of Scotland's 'space whisky' is due home so researchers can see how the conditions in space affect flavour. This is one small step for man, one giant leap for whisky.

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animals on Earth, were nearly hunted to extinction in the last century. But now, the population of California blue whales is almost as high as it was in the early 1900s - a recovery that should be celebrated as a conservation success story!

These lamps, designed by Yukio Takana from Japan, use mushroom-shaped LEDs, bits of driftwood, and salvage lumber to create something that has a kitsch or whimsical quality.

This is a colourised photograph of Albert Einstein taken during a lecture in Vienna, Austria, in 1921. To create colourised images, digital artists take a black and white or sepia photograph and use historical references to work out which colours should go where. This photo was originally taken by Ferdinand Schmutzer and coloured by Dana Keller from History in Color.

Turns out big cats like the taste of dog - a new study of scat samples found that 87 per cent of the diet of Indian leopards was made up of domestic animals, with dogs being the most common prey item.

At just 0.001 mm in size, marine diatoms are one of the smallest creatures on Earth. They're also pretty stunning to look at under the microscope, so a biologist and a film-maker teamed up to showcase their strange beauty:

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Tailor Garrison Bespoke has designed a bulletproof three-piece suit using state of the art carbon nano-technology!

The Fargesia bamboo flowers only once every 120 years!

We're all thinking it... this watermelon looks like a big green butt. Accidentally grown in Japan, it formed when two watermelons grew too close together and fused. And it turns out that 'Japanese butt melons' aren't all that uncommon

What a waste!

This beautiful photograph of the aurora borealis lighting up a glacial lagoon in Iceland has won James Woodend the top prize in the 2014 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Don't ask questions, just get on. Genets are small, mongoose-like felines found in Africa - and this one has been caught on camera hitching rides from at least two different species over the past month. This is the first time this behaviour has ever been seen in the mammal...

Kösen's height was caused by the production of too much growth hormone due to a tumour in his pituitary gland. The tumour was eventually removed in 2010 through revolutionary gamma-knife surgery. Amge has a form of dwarfism, caused by a mutation in a bone growth gene.

How did doctors figure out if women were pregnant back in the day? They used frogs, of course! Before the 1960's, the only reliable pregnancy test involved injecting a woman's urine into an African clawed frog and seeing if the frog spawned.

This peculiar method, known as the 'frog pregnancy test,' may sound bizarre today, but it was a common practice in the early to mid-20th century. The African clawed frog, a species native to sub-Saharan Africa, was preferred for this test because of its unique reproductive system.

If a woman was pregnant, her urine would contain hormones that would induce the frog to lay eggs, confirming the pregnancy. While this method may seem unusual by modern standards, it was an early example of using biological indi ...

In 2004, a robber took $14,500 from a bank in Japan, but felt so guilty he mailed the money back with an apology!

The Walt Disney Concert Hall was made LESS shiny. The reflection was blinding drivers & heating side-walks to 140 °F!