Animals

April 24, 2018

Top Underwater Photographers Celebrate the Unseen Beauty of the Sea

For over 50 years, London's Natural History Museum has celebrated world-class nature photography with its Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. And now, a new book brings together the best underwater photography submitted to the contest over the past 15 years or so. Unforgettable Underwater Photography is a collection gathering the best work of over 50 international underwater photographers.

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April 12, 2018

Adorable “Mickey Mouse Dog” Has Giant Fluffy Ears Like a Real-Life Cartoon

A post shared by まるぱぴ ゴマ (@marupgoma_c) on Aug 19, 2017 at 2:57am PDT A little cute dog named Goma has recently found internet fame because of her one big feature—her ears! The 4-year-old Maltese and Papillon mix has fluffy gray ears that are nearly as tall as her head. Their scale, in addition to their rounded shape, has affectionately earned her the nickname of Mickey Mouse dog.

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April 3, 2018

Designers Custom-Build Luxury Lounge Room for Fancy Felines

While most pet owners know that cats can make themselves at home almost anywhere, many would argue that our feline friends are worthy of luxury accommodation. Today, modern cat furniture is more popular than ever. So much so that there’s even an interior design term for the genre in circulation: catitecture. One design firm to embrace the trend is Taiwan-based INDOT, who designed a modern kitty lounge for a family home.

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March 23, 2018

Photographer Spends Years Capturing Incredible Up-Close Photos of Brown Bears

Kamchatka, a peninsula located in the Russian Far East, is a fascinating land. Bordered by the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, filled with volcanoes, its subarctic temperatures have piqued the interest of explorers since the 17th century. But it was Kamchatka's population of brown bears—one of the densest in the world—that attracted wildlife photographer Sergey Gorshkov, and pulled him back year after year to study these fascinating mammals.

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