"Noms d'oiseaux" from Bertrand Besnard is a range of bird calls to the nature lovers. Made in beech, box tree and metal, these four objects are decorated just like the bird whom they allow to attract.

Baby emperor scorpions take a ride on mom's back at Cincinnati Zoo.

Teen tiny tarantulas! Over 140 Antilles Pink-toed Bird-eating Tarantulas have hatched at Bristol Zoo.

Though World Tapir Day was on April 24th, it's not too late for this fun DIY Tapir Mask by Natalya Zahn.

The Chicken Chair by Sebastian Errázuriz

Biochemist Linden Gledhill's homegrown snow. Watch the snowflakes created in his homemade snowflake-growing machine.

German artist, Cornelia Konrads, creates installations in public spaces that are punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness. Incredible work!

FEATUREDRocky! The new rocking horse by Marc Newson in the Magis Me Too collection.

VIDEOSander van den Berg's beautiful video created from image sequences from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions.

FEATUREDA look at the fantastic exhibition 'Brains: The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection, which captures the brain as a cultural object as well as fascinating component of anatomy and medicine.

FEATUREDThe beautiful, highly iridescent, violet oil beetle. An incredible and fascinating creature with bumbling ways, tiny wings and an intriguing life history which includes hitchhiking on bees!

VIDEOSpeed Flying from the Mont Blanc summit to the base looks like an extraordinary experience.

Fantastic photos of tiny harvest mice by Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert.

Rare Species exclusively on Ilmgold are a playful and unexpected twist by Studio Laura Strasser

Ellen Heilmann's adorable WALDI UND SPRINTER - Dog Pull Toys for children made out of leather in collaboration with Kathrin Schumacher.

'All the Wild Horses', beautiful series by Andrew McGibbon.

VIDEONature gets a look at the anatomical drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci at Windsor Castle.

The stunning 'History of fishes', illustrations from Francis Willughby's De historia piscium, 1686. One of many gems from the picture library of The Royal Society.

Ibuku Architecture is committed to the development of bamboo as a sustainable building material. Using only bamboo, they have constructed these incredible buildings for the renowned green school.

Adorable baby red coatis at Zoo Brno in the Czech Republic.

Computer scientists at Kobe University in Japan have built a computer that draws inspiration from the swarming behavior of soldier crabs

Kronk x Kidrobot's Lovebirds! I wish they had magnetic feet!

Tokyo Zoo Project for the Sony Nav-U ~ animals were mapped out as routes and you can ride them throughout tokyo!

Gorgeous look of anglerfishes from the archives of the American Museum of Natural History.

FEATUREDA wall full of horns, floor to ceiling skeletons, and rooms full of taxidermy! A rare glimpse at the natural history collections behind the scenes of the Horniman Museum in London.

VIDEOBeautiful video using particle image velocimetry (PIV) to explore the flow field around brine shrimp.

VIDEOBrown University researchers take a closer look at bat flight and discover that bats fold their wings on the upstroke, saving energy.

Sound sculptures and futuristic paintings by Hank - Los Angeles based Experimental artist.

VIDEOMicro Empire from Clemens Wirth & Radium Audio.

Wood'Insane revisits the shelf and table plants, with the new Wendy. Thanks to a clever mechanism you'll be able to play with your plants with gravity!

Researchers at Keio University are creating interactive plants, enabling them to display emotions and communicate with people.

VIDEOFrançois Vautier scanned an ant colony he set up in a scanner once a week for five years. This is the impressive result.

FEATUREDJim Dunlop's Tortex guitar picks turn 30 this year... and the packaging redesign turns the iconic turtle logo into a sticker!

VIDEOBeautiful secret life of plankton captured by marine biologist Tierney Thys.

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo announces the birth of a tiny new baby of the world's smallest antelope species, the Royal Antelope.

VIDEOInsects! by Tor Even Mathisen, a great macrovideo offering a super up close look at arthropod lives.

Woodcut by Bryan Nash Gill - a book of beautiful, detailed prints of woodcuts cross sections through trees telling their unique stories through the details.

Dogocle - a monocle for the dogs.

The recycled aluminum trees, "Cité Internationale du Design de Saint Etienne", designed and erected by the French architect and designer Didier Muller, seek to blend furniture so neatly with art.

Phosphorescent painting on concrete wall in Paris by Noémi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto.

FEATUREDOur look at 'Animal Inside Out' at the Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Body Worlds. When else will you have a chance to see trisected horse heads, a capillary shark and plastinated elephant?

FEATUREDNatalya Zahn's amazing natural illustrations up close, a peek at her book, Tropical Forest, and the stunning packaging it arrived in!

Lovely photos of the Rare, Beautiful and Disturbing Objects From the National Library of Medicine from Wired Science.

Francis Ooi's "What I see When I run", captures beautiful botanical portraits of plants and fungi encountered as he jogs in Singapore.

One of the nature's more bizarre looking baby mammals, a little aardvark has arrived at Busch Gardens.

Luxirare makes a mini adidas tracksuit for their dog, Rocky.

Imajen Exploration Tools. Sustainable tools for children, to cultivate their imagination, connect with and appreciate nature. By Kenji Huang.

Amazing elephant on a trampoline animated gif will make you smile... and stare...

The Serpentarium - snakes in a new skin. New entrance and shop of the reptile zoo by Mojo design.

FEATUREDA look at some of the incredible biodiversity of the Amazon. Check out this bizarre and beautiful selection of insects we encountered on the Rio Negro.

Stunning diffusion spectrum imaging to infer the position of nerve fibers in the living human brain.

Altaeros Energies, wind energy company formed out of MIT, has been able to generate high altitude power from a prototype of its floating wind turbine in Maine.

Adorable little pygmy hippo, a new addition at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa.

A look at a gigantic Solar Tornado five times the size of Earth.

Designer Ollie Palmer has spent two years studying control systems and insect navigation in a bid to develop a machine that makes ants move in a choreographed fashion, dubbed the Ant Ballet.

'My Soul' by Katharine Dowson is a laser-etched lead crystal glass formation in the shape of a brain, created using the artist's own MRI scan.

Wired looks at bioluminescence ahead of an exciting new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.

A genetic study of cattle has claimed that all modern domesticated bovines are descended from a single herd of wild ox, which lived 10,500 years ago.

A robot sent to record underwater sounds has detected barely audible cricket-like noises that might be underwater nocturnal fish farts.

VIDEOA Foggy Sunday in downtown Chicago - A time-lapse video filmed from a thousand feet up, captured by Craig Shimala.

NYtimes slideshow of the new book 'A Glorious Enterprise' to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Belfast Zoo's latest addition, a little Malayan tapir that looks like a watermelon with legs!

Porcelain Elixir of Life Cups/Mugs!

Art and natural inspiration combine at RISD's Edna Lawrence Nature Lab, hands-on natural history collection and studio environment to examine and explore patterns, structures and interactions of design in nature.

Former sniper Craig Jones has traded his rifle for a long lens to become a wildlife photographer and is using all those skills to capture stunning wildlife shots.

Perpetual Ocean is a visualization from the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio of ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007.

Adorable orphaned little baby owls.

PLASMA . Urban Installation and musical by Sael from Mar del Plata , Argentina.

FEATUREDA close up look at the tiny bicolored and strawberry poison dart frogs at London Zoo.

VIDEOLeg Bound, the latest video collaboration from visual artist Sam Spreckley. This time he collaborates with Dutch sound creator Steve Mensink aka Urkelle on his track Leg Bound. Digital video with 8mm celluloid.

'Vegetal Design' about french designer Patrick Nadeau by Thierry De Beaumont.

This backlit Tsubaki Flower Arrangement is made from just one piece of Washi Paper, folded by Origami Artist Elke Muche.

Nancy McCabe created these intricate hand embossed animal skeletons (this one is an otter!) for an art show in Chicago.

Frank Lloyd Wright indulged a young boy's humble request for a dog house in 1956 and sent him designs for the structure.

FEATUREDBeautiful pillows from East Camp Home Pillows featuring the creature photography of Valerie Shaff - rhinos, doves, snakes, peacocks, hawks, bunnies and more!

Live ticks become the first animals to be observed under a scanning electron microscope while alive.

How spiders avoid sticking to their own webs. The key is in the movement!

Fascinating new research into the behavior of flocks of starlings suggest individual birds act mathematically like magnetized metals.

Ondrej Pakan's inspiring macro photography.

David Boni's stunning Noble Animals series.

Gorgeous photos of Busch Garden's new emu chicks.

Andrey Pavlov's macro photography of ants.

VIDEONature Valley Trail View is the Google street view of trails. Explore the Grand Canyon, Smokey Mountains, and Yellowstone on the trail.

VIDEOAmazing footage of a chicken embryo's beating heart made visible through the injection of dark ink into the yolk sac artery. [Editor's note: part of the amazing 2011 Nikon Small World in Motion featured in #46029].

Self-Assembly Line by Skylar Tibbits and Arthur Olson, presented at the 2012 TED Conference, is a large-scale version of a self-assembly virus capsid, demonstrated as an interactive and performative structure.

To escape the floods hitting the town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia, spiders are seeking higher ground and creating staggering interconnected webs to do so.

Beautiful hand screen-printed pillow with an image of an octopus in neutral colors, by thomaspaul.

Biografie is the graphical (-grafie) representation of small living (Bio-) creatures. A pencil follows an ant, a spider, a silkworm a cockroach and more to create the line-work.

Adorable sticky note pigeons!

10 Years of Gorgeous Images of Earth From Space from the 8-ton Envisat satellite.

New research suggests that even fragments of embryonic corals can go on to form complete individuals.

The Photoptic Sky Survey... 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky created from 37,440 exposures, stitched together by Nick Risinger.

VIDEOA journey through a dystopic landscape, playing with creation, destruction, rebirth. Piece of Paper by Daniel Schwarz.

VIDEOIncredible footage of a Lord Howe Island Stick Insect hatching at Melbourne Zoo.

VIDEOOne of my favorite bits of LIFE footage, rufous sengi (or elephant shrew) on the run set to Alex Smith's Aphid Frenzy.

VIDEOBear71, an incredible technology driven, altogether different type of documentary about bears created by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison.

Great video of a Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunting, which shows the fish blowing jets of water while approaching prey to disorient them.

Take a dive 11,000m down in an ocean trench with this infographic from the BBC.

Scientists discover Buckyballs (microscopic spheres, where 60 carbon atoms are arranged in a football-like pattern) in a solid form, around a pair of stars some 6,500 light-years from Earth.

FEATUREDIncredibly beautiful Australian or white-spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata) at the California Academy of Sciences almost look like little swimming blue toadstools!

This unassuming little springtail, Plutomurus ortobalaganensis, is a newly discovered species which now holds the record for deepest living underground invertebrates at 1980 meters.

Chicago's Brookfield Zoo celebrate the new arrival of an Aardvark calf.

New research suggests that squid may fly to save energy. Many species have been seen to 'fly' using the same jet-propulsion mechanisms that they use to swim: squirting water out of their mantles so that they rocket out of the sea and glide through the air.

New Scientist on huge oceanic eddies, 150km wide. Stunning image captured by NASA's Terra satellite last December.

An entirely new family with 7 species of caecilians, legless amphibians, has been discovered hiding in the soil of northeast India!

Researchers at Drexel University are 3d scanning dinosaur bones for replica 3d printing. They plan on building full scale robotic dinosaurs from the scans to study their joints and movements.

VIDEOBehind the scenes at the observatory. The stunning Keck Observatory houses two ten-meter telescopes and is perched atop the summit of Mauna Kea Hawai'i.

Stunning video from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory capturing dark plasma tornadoes on the surface of the Sun.

Snowboarder William Hughes glides down through the French snow in a gleaming L.E.D. suit

Brookesia micra, one of a four newly discovered chameleons, native to Madagascar, and thought to be the tiniest!

Stunning series of Birds of Prey photos by Martin Klimas.

This park in Austria turns into an underwater park every Summer, and back to dry land in Winter! An amazing natural phenomena indeed.

Renaud Dancie, a french creator is hand-making these classy stools and other home decors with reclaimed wood from the french “Landes” forest.

Wired Science's collection of beautiful videos of the Earth at night.

Ingenious hanging gardens for your flat. Designed by french designers Barreau&Charbonnet.

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies captured a shark eating another shark in the Great Barrier Reef! The a tasselled wobbegong shark was swallowing brown-banded bamboo shark head first!

Cute dog barrel poop bag holder for the collar

Perth Zoo's adorable echidna puggle is growing up!

A new study published in Biology Letters suggests that tarsiers may communicate in pure ultrasound.

Stunning tiny worlds! The winners of the Nikon Small World microvideography contest.

Stunning photos of skeletons by Eiji Yuzawa capture their sculptural beauty.

The Scale of the Universe by Cary Huang takes you from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of space-time. Along the way you will see molecules, animals, countries, and galaxies; all putting you in your scale. Awesome!

VIDEOMaking of a life-size model of Xiphactinus for the Hastings Museum.

McDonald’s X California Poppy Seed Bomb Ad by Sean Click. The California poppy is the California state flower, protected by legislature, making it illegal to pick, dig up, or destroy.

Lovely visualisation of bird migrations across the US.

Stunning deep sea discoveries off the California coast. Beautiful slideshow of the latest findings published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Stunningly beautiful macro photographs of insects by Lee Peiling.

A staggering 22 baby coatis at Melbourne Zoo!

Stunning slideshow of the 2011 Science/NSF International Science & Engineering
Visualization Challenge.

VIDEOBBC's Weird Nature shows us how some creatures found rolling is the fastest way down a hill - See how some salamanders and caterpillars curl up and roll!

Wired Science takes a look at 8 controversial proposals to introduce non-native endangered species.

VIDEOA nice look at the dark side of the moon! From NASA's new probes Ebb and Flow (part of GRAIL, Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory).

Fun time lapse pics of fireflies!

FEATUREDNew 2012 woody creatures by Karl Zahn for Areaware - adorable dovetail animals and stackable crocodiles!

Beautiful footage of a hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) in flight.

The male orb-web spider Nephilengys malabarensis has been discovered to break of its own sex organs to avoid being eaten during mating. Incredible finding published in Biology Letters.

Biggest, Fastest, Bloodiest: Earth’s Most Extreme Insects from Wired tells of some amazing bugs and why they hold 14 positions in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Lovely botanical photo series by Erwan Frotin.

Bullet-stopping skin? New futuristic tissue designed by artist Jalila Essaïdi, which reinforces human skin cells with spider silk.

VIDEOFlow visualization using tobacco mosaic virus.

Simen Johan's beautiful animal portraits.

FEATUREDAmazing photos of incredible species. National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to capture our incredible biodiversity before it disappears.

Cute post at Heavy Petal on how to save tomato seeds (for planting your own!)

FEATUREDCorkers - pushpin like add ons that turn your wine/champagne corks into fun animals!