General Elizabeth Ann, the first ever cloned ferret

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Elizabeth Ann, the first ever cloned black-footed ferret, created from the frozen cells of a ferret that died more than 30 years ago. She was cloned from a cell line that has been cryopreserved since 1988 at the San Diego Zoo Global Frozen Zoo.

 

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Red eyed Crocodile skinks look like something straight out of Game of Thrones

 

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first Rare Picturephone invented by AT&T From the 1970s

 

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On Peace Day 2013, 9000 silhouettes of soldiers were etched into the sand on Normandy beach. This was to commemorate the fallen from D-Day WWII. It only lasted a few hours till the tide came in.

 

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Man takes 8 years to breed python with yellow smilies on its back.

 

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A fresco found at the toilet near a bar in Pompeii. The goddess Isis Fortuna watches over a man who's pooping and an inscription says "shitter beware of the evil eye". Their public toilets were so unsanitary that they thought evil spirits are lurking there

 

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Mr. Peebles, worlds tiniest cat 3.1 pounds. Official in Guiness Worlds Records

 

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Electron microscope of a gecko’s toe. The frayed microscopic hairs on the underside provide a gravity-defying grip.

 

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Newly discovered kitefin shark is the largest known luminous underwater creature

 

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The Dumbo Octopus. They live at extreme depths (up to 13,000 feet below the surface) in oceans around the world—which makes them the deepest living octopuses known. They are also considered the cutest of all octopuses.

 

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Throughout history, and until relatively recently, ketchup was made with mushrooms and fish brine, not tomatoes. That's why the stuff we buy today is called "Tomato Ketchup" instead of just "Ketchup".

 

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The "Evil Eye" located more than 17 million light-years away taken by NASA.

 

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The Costasiella kuroshimae (or Leaf Sheep) is one of the only animals in the world that can photosynthesize

 

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Incredible image of Chinook landing precariously on a shack in Afghanistan, 2003. Being picked up from the side of a steep mountain at an elevation of 8,500 feet above sea level. With no place to land an aircraft with a 52-foot-long fuselage that is almost 100 feet long with massive twin rotors.

 

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This is a glass sponge, a species thought by many to have the longest life span of any animal, growing up to 15,000 years old.

 

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One of the best examples of Dinosaur footprints in the world. In Australia’s ‘Jurassic Park’ this footprint is 127 to 140 million years old.

 

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An engineer wiring an early IBM computer.1958

 

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Elephants are constantly walking on high heels.

 

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Did you know that there are jellyfish that have eyes? This is a box-jellyfish, they need sight to navigate through mangroves and rivers where they mate.

 

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The biggest crab in the world, the Japanese Spider Crab

 

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The Seattle Boeing factory disguised as a fake neighborhood during WWII. The ground was burlap, canvas, and chicken wire. The lawns and trees were spun glass and chicken feathers. Buildings were 4ft tall.

 

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The very first exhibit you see when you begin your tour at the Army Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)

 

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The Mil Mi-26 (biggest helicopter in the world) near a Boeing 737-800

 

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Early concept art by Tim Burton for BATMAN (1989). In this version, which he co-wrote with Julie Hickson, the Joker was going to run for mayor (image 2), an idea later used for the Penguin in BATMAN RETURNS.

 

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Elizabeth Ann, the first ever cloned black-footed ferret, created from the frozen cells of a ferret that died more than 30 years ago. She was cloned from a cell line that has been cryopreserved since 1988 at the San Diego Zoo Global Frozen Zoo.

My friend had a ferret called uncle fester when we were kids. On Christmas one year he got drunk on baileys and he was hungover for like half the year. I like ferrets, they are funny little buggers.