"Mazzo di Fiori" 3D printed Floral Filigree Series by Joshua Harker. Celebrating the harmony & beauty of opposite & opposing forces.

A closeup look at the eye of a sleeping red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas). The golden nictating membrane lets in just enough light to detect would-be attackers.

Adventures of the West - Western US camping and travel blog of photographer, Justin Carrasquillo and Antonia.

'Pop Up' garden in Chiavari, Italy, by architect Nicola Spinetto.

Beautiful black and white portraits of animals by Lukas Holas.

Do-It-Yourself Transportation Kit. Four similar parts when connected to a house door, can be used to transport personal belongings during a natural disaster.

These Shark Ray pups born at the Newport Aquarium are the first born in captivity.

Alien and Monkey' Sand Light - The Barcelona-based design studio has created a light from sand using traditional ceramic techniques.

The Oregon Zoo's new otter pup learns to swim. Fun underwater photo series!

The latest mural for a coffee shop by Untitled Wall Project.

Researchers have discovered that this parasitic leech (Ozobranchus jantseanus) can survive a chilly 24 hours in liquid nitrogen.

Manta Underwater Room - A floating hotel off the coast of Tanzania's Pemba Island lets you get up close and personal with aquatic life without having to leave the comfort of your bedroom.

VIDEOCreaturecast shine the spotlight on Ctenophore and their cilia.

Beautiful macrophotography from Jimmy Kong. We especially love looking into the eyes of those jumping spiders!

Tiny potbellied seahorses born at Zoo Basel.

Mudchute (our favorite London farm) ~ now has Mudchute Wool - Reared and Sheared on the Isle of Dogs! So fun to see the wool from the sheep we visit every time in London!

VIDEOIncredible footage of birds in flight from Dennis Hlynsk capture their flight paths.

Tiny farming: Daily Needs Modular Chicken Coop & Garden by Studio Segers provides all the components you need to assemble housing for chickens, raised beds for vegetables, composting bin, and tool shed in a configuration of your choice.

Baby Moray Eels at Tiergarten Schönbrunn.

Stunning photos of bioluminescence in the Maldives from Andy Ho.

VIDEOCastan - A bespoke typeface created for howies. Literally carved from a windfallen Welsh chestnut tree and inked to become this stunning typeface by Carter Wong for Howies.

These honeybees carry a chip on their backs, allowing researchers from CSIRO to better understand their behavior.

Sandcastle worms like these have inspired medical-grade adhesives with their viscous secretions.

Amazing photos from stormchasing photographer Mike Hollingshead.

BioGlow have produced a genetically modified plant that glows in the dark. The result, Starlight Avatar, is now available by auction.

Researchers have identified more than 180 species of fish that sport fluorescent coatings.

Mysteries of the Unseen World, using high-speed and time-lapse photography, electron microscopy, and nanotechnology to show us the world that exists all around us, yet out of sight.

Ingrid Graz’s SEM photographs of amorphous carbon deposited on glass.

VIDEOKaleidoscope by Dulce Luna at IaaC -- Dots of CMY color expand when they receive an electrical impulse, simulating the camouflage technique of an octopus's skin.

ModeMachine Prototype A.N.I.M.A.L.S. Automated Nuerally Integrated Mammalian Androids Living Symbiotically.

FEATUREDROADTRIP ADVENTURE! From LA to Park City, UT ~ we drove from the beach, across the city, offroading through the desert, up into the mountains to find the snow and back ~ truly testing the Audi 2014 Q7 TDI.

A Victoria Crowned Pigeon arrives at Zoo Miami.

Perroquet, a beautiful series of photographs of parrots in flight by Sølve Sundsbø.

"Preserved" is a series of prints by Print Studio Shop documenting vintage taxidermy animals. The series further preserves each animal in print and tells the story of their present day existence.

Build's Animal A-Z posters - adorable illustrations!

The winners of the 2013 Olympus BioScapes competition.

Adorable baby Bonnethead Shark pups at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores.

VIDEOGrizzly Bear vs. YETI Cooler. Fun video, strangely beautiful and fascinating to watch.

The Vaulted Cork Pavillion was built for Amorim Isolamentos Lda., to demonstrate its cork building materials at Concreta 2013, a biennial building fair held at Exponor, Porto.

Watch a Tawny Frogmouth grow up at the St. Louis Zoo.

Beautifully camouflaged insects and spiders capture by Nicky Bay.

FEATUREDThe details and tiny knots and twirls in the wood ~ inspiring details as we built this 100+ft wood fence the last few days...

American photographer Erika Larsen spent three years living mostly with reindeer herders in Kautokeino, Norway’s far north.

VIDEOA temperature inversion at the Grand Canyon creates a sea of clouds and captured by Paul Lettieri.

Rainy Pot by Korean Designer Seungbin Jeong.

Great images of a five-inch squid attacking an owlfish from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute expedition.

Hundreds of tiny clownfish hatch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

'Concrete outdoor chair' by designer Tina Rugelj for Esal.

Echtwald Shop's Advent Calendar - An inedible Christmas calendar that is fun, sustainable, and lasts longer than Christmas.

Meet Chester Zoo's two young Dik Dik.

VIDEOPhotographer Thomas Senf and light specialist David Hedinger turned ice climbing in Eidfjord, Norway, into a work of art.

'Monolit' outdoor bench by Polish designer Pawel Grobelny in Albertine's garden in Brussel, Belgium.

Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov captured snowflakes with a DIY macro lens he made out of a $50 lens.

VIDEONorwegian animator and sound artist Per Byhring explains how particles originating from deep inside the core of the sun creates northern lights or aurora borealis.

Woodoir combs by Sanja Rotter. As material for combs scrap material for wooden flooring, leftover veneer and solely domestic wood species were used. Technology used includes CNC cutting of the the basic contour and hand finishing.

This three-eyed crab was found in New Zealand and that extra eye might just be its conjoined twin.

Baby cuttlefish and a DIY cuttlefish incubator at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Beautiful fish portraits from Visarute Angkatavanich.

FEATUREDBeautiful baby octopus my dad just sent pictures of! And it was merely the size of a dollar coin.

Flower - A table that combines the warmth of the wood with the purity of glass, to expose nature in its beauty, by designers Adam & Samuel Cigler.

“La Morena” is a small pot that combines two materials rarely seen together, wood and cement. The combination of both results in an honest and balanced artifact where concrete’s stony aesthetics are countered and warmed by wood’s organic looks.

The Garden Edit ~ A collection of beautiful objects for gardens.

Nikon announces the winners of the 2013 Small World Photomicrography Comeptition.

Animal Earth, The Amazing Diversity of Living Forms, celebrating animal diversity by Ross Piper, published by Thames & Hudson.

VIDEONASA releases footage of the sun's Canyon of Fire during late September.

Floor made from recycled shipping pallets. made by produktWerft / Sascha Akkermann

Biofoam surfboards production of the future
the creation of the worlds first certified 100% biodegradable and 99% bio-based surfboard foam.

'Petites Rocailles' by French designer Germain Bourré for Miloma.

The bizarre strike of the goblin shark.

VIDEOElement went to test their Wolfeboro jackets on the arctic island of Spitsbergen, home to the world's northernmost miniramp.

Tiny new baby seadragons at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Portland brands Shwood and Pendleton have teamed up for a limited collection of wooden sunglasses. Each frame features temples laser engraved with Pendleton's most iconic patterns.

New 'Wild' artwork by Ben the Illustrator for literary magazine Popshot.

Scientists take a closer look at the structure of the incredibly strong teeth of the Chiton mollusc.

Chomp, a series of food-chain puzzles from Mirim Seo.

Beautiful & intricate NATURE GIRL: From the Forest temporary tattoos from illustrator Victoria Foster at UK print & pattern studio, The Aviary.

Vogelhuisje Bird’s Palace Mensch Made - This handmade design birdhouse is a palace for birds and a jewel in the garden

Incredible photos from Nick Brandt of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. The photos feature in his latest book Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearance of animals in Eastern Africa.

Fantastic high-res 360 degree panormas of coral reefs across the world. The Catlin Global Reef Record collates and communicates images shot with its robust custom-built underwater camera.

Great shortlist from the 2013 FEI Image Contest in collaboration with National Geographic.

A city for fish modelled on a high-rise development underway in Xi'an, China, has been installed in a gallery next to the construction site.

'Bio Mass Lights' pendant lamps by English designer Jay Watson.

TENTSILE tree tents offer a unique way for you and your friends to experience the great outdoors, away from uncomfortable or uneven ground conditions, wetness, bugs and other creepies. Take your camping to a new level! Play, Camp, Explore..

Flickr set of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! BHL works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Attrap Rêves, a French countryside hotel in Marseilles that invites guests to sleep under the stars in their transparent pods.

FEATUREDA first look at After Life, an exhibition of poignant portraits of extinct and endangered species from Sean Dooley, which opens at the Horniman Museum and Gardens this Saturday.

Wired's roundup of some of the most otherworldly creatures you'll find on Earth, including this Sea Butterfly.

Adorable tiny horseshoe crabs at Jenkison's Aquarium in New Jersey.

Help researchers find and identify plankton with Zooniverse's new Plankton Portal.

'Caverne Mobile' architecture experimentation by French designer Alexandre Moronnoz in Paris, France.

'Friluftsstugan' cottage by designer Svartnäs Johan for Kenjo.

Scientist discover an insect that has evolved mechanical gears in its legs. Meet Issus coleoptratus.

SEED Contemporary Concrete Tile by Gillian Blease for KAZA Concrete.

A close up look at pollen from Ueber den Pollen (1837) by Carl Julius Fritzsche.

Remember the audio recording program featured in #55047? Check out the rest of Sam Droege's incredible portraits of insects and other creatures from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab’s Flickr page.

Amazing animal/skeleton prints from Theo Jan. Above is a look at 3 of the 4 available.

Help record the sounds of summer and help create an Atlas of North American Calling Insects. Great project from entomologist Sam Droege of the United States Geological Survey.

New footage of the squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi, which waves it's thing club-tipped tentacles, possibly to lure prey into reach of its more muscular tentacles.

Gardiner’s frogs from the Seychelles islands are one of the smallest frogs in the world. They do not possess a middle ear with an eardrum, but instead, appear to hear through their mouths!

A baby porcupine arrives at Zoo Vienna.

A von Karman vortex street stretching from Isla Socorro off western Mexico

KEK Amsterdam's Animal Wall Stickers (Forest + Safari) are adorable, especially their height charts!

"The Eel World: Inside Maine’s Wild Elver Turf War" ~ fascinating look into the world of eels... and nice graphics by Justine Zwiebel.

Popeye, the self-supporting greenhouse for living on Mars that grows spinach, designed by Greek students, winners of NASA contest.

The 2013 Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition winners have been announced. The stories behind many of the photos are fascinating.

Monster Cuca, project by illustrator Thiagoegg to encourage children to eat well and create their own dishes.

'L’Oasis d’Aboukir' by Patrick Blanc for the Paris Design Week in Paris, France.

'Hangzhou' bamboo stool by Chinese designer Min Chen.

VIDEOEver wonder what snails get up to? Dr. Dave Hodgson led a team at the University of Exeter to tag snails with LEDs and UV paint to track their movements.

The rugged and electronicless Vaavud Wind Meter turns your smartphone into a high-tech meteorological tool.

'Bella' outdoor furniture by design studio Carsten Astheimer.

VIDEOCheetah vs Greyhound - World's Fastest Dog In Super Slow Motion by Earth Unplugged, films these extremely fast animals with high speed cameras, breaks down their movements, and how they achieve such speed.

Royal College of Art graduate Benedikt Groß has digitally "printed" a field with a pattern of oats and wild flowers.

FEATUREDKnopper Galls ~ did you know there are wasps growing inside of these crazy growths on acorns? Take a peek inside...

The Wild Reindeer Exhibition in Norway is Gagarin's most recent exhibition comprised of 13 interactive installations where users get to explore and experience the various historical, biological and social aspects related to the existence of these wild creatures.

Wired Science's gorgeous roundup of some incredible spiders.

Plum Stool Design, Carbon Fiber Furniture.

Timber-Concrete Sparrow Colony House

Faces of Water. New photographic technique that captures the hidden life of Water. Breathtaking, haunting collection of images of liquid water in motion. By Moses Hacmon.

Petit Collage World Map fabric wall decal ~ lovely colors and animals! 24" x 36"

Based on over 5,000 years of Indian tradition, Gurus are unique, stylish and comfortable sandals sustainably sourced from rubber trees.

Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects teamed up with environmental engineering firm Transsolar to encase a cloud inside a transparent two-storey cube.

A map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by Buckminster Fuller.

Beautiful cacti terrariums from [ 10¹² ] TERRA.

DTWO(Dimension Two) is a longboard company from Slovenia. The artistic longboards are beautifully crafted by a group of friends composed by craftsmen and artists.

Cond'oiseaux are condominiums for birds. Designed by igluSTUDIO.

VIDEOWhy Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs? from artist Aki Inomata is a series of 3D printed crab shells that have designed with buildings and cityscapes on them.

When Björk Met Attenborough is a UK documentary featuring singer Bjork and broadccaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough explore the relationship between music, technology and the natural world.

MTRL Design, a laser-crazy design/build studio featured in the Omaha World Herald yesterday, is starting an IndieGoGo campaign to sustainably grow, harvest and manufacture bamboo panels in the midwest.

Cosmic Nuggets with awesome wooden custom figures created from recycled skateboards, hand cut and hand painted, raising awareness of re using materials and also exploring illustration in different forms!

'Beach Library' by French designer Matali Crasset in Istres, France.

Suren Manvelyan has incredible close up looks at animal (and human) eyes... that's a llama!

8' x 8' modern treehouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fantastic Scout Survival Kit from design agency Plus63 Design Co.

Cluc is an object collection designed for cats and people.

'Sacré potager' by Atelier Barda Architects for The International Garden Festival in Métis, Québec. The installation leads the visitor into a poetic fiction of the 'sacred' side of garden and culinary heritage.

Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton's Bird Brick - an enclosed cavity brick fitting for endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls.

Amazing opening video for Norwegian awards show Gulltaggen, by cinematographer Karl Erik Brøndbo.

Gotham Cargo Basket for bike, handmade in Greece from local Pinewood. Design and workmanship from traditional Greece shipbuilders

The SLVRBK Mat, the next generation yoga and exercise mat.

Joco Coffeecup, reusable cup for work or travel. Joco reduces using paper and plastic throw away coffeecups. Help the environment without compromising taste and style.

Crystal growing Giant Sequoia is part of a new line of terraforming kits by Copernicus

'City Park' by architect David Closes in Manresa - Spain.

Pur Norsk Cato - Moose Coat Hanger in various woods and black or white.