This is a short Instagram video of a recently hatched Peruvian dragon mantis swaying on a person’s thumb. When full grown, a female dragon mantis can reach lengths up to 5-inches, and males up to 3-inches. Some dragons! It’s hard to believe these things are real, isn’t it? Mother Nature

To demonstrate the precision of its new Microsurgery Assistance Robot, Sony used the device to delicately stitch up a single kernel of corn. What that corn did to require stitches, I’m not sure, but I suspect it involved an accident with one of those spiked corn on the cob holders

Part of the Mundo Pixar exhibit in São Paulo, Brazil, this giant recreation of Andy’s bedroom from Toy Story allows visitors to experience the room as if they’re toy-sized themselves. That’s fun! Or, like most things in life, at least it would be with less people hanging around. “Still mad

This is a video of artist Bobby Duke carving a pencil into a snake wrapped around its graphite center, slithering towards a mouse atop the eraser. The result is pretty impressive. Not to brag or anything, but I’ve done a little bit of pencil carving myself. Unfortunately, by the time

Because you never know when your husband is going to accidentally shrink the kids and they’ll need help getting around the house, artist and model builder Luke Towan went and constructed this tiny working escalator. Oh man, this thing is going to be the absolute highlight of the dollmall I’ve

This is a video from 2019 of 7’1″ Shaquille O’Neal stuffing himself into a Smart Car in New York City the same way I assume sausage is made at the factory. Honestly though, it doesn’t actually seem that all that bad. Now if the entire 2002 Los Angeles Lakers team

Microorganisms: do they really exist or are they just made up by scientists to explain magic? The world may never know. But this is another in MetaBallStudio’s unending series of size comparison videos (previously), this time visualizing the size of various microorganisms using humans, increasingly larger manmade objects, and eventually

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s macro footage M&M’s melting in water comes another video from Youtube channel Another Perspective, this time some macro timelapse footage of tiny stink bugs hatching. They look so cute! Almost like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie. Speaking of stink bugs — they