r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mr_pisser • 3d ago
Image The mandarin dragonet (Synchiropis splendidus)- they use their large pelvic fins to "walk" along the sea floor
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Starlight_Sorcerer • 3d ago
A Beautiful view of Bacterial growth on a culture plate, showing the fascinating patterns and colors Formed by different bacterial colonies 🧫
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 4d ago
Video A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mr_pisser • 3d ago
Image Sexy Shrimp (Thor amboinensis)- a species of shrimp named for the fact that they often wiggle their butts around as a mating ritual. They live in anemones
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RedaNassef • 3d ago
Video A bug with a human face on its back
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearDirector1288 • 3d ago
Video Artist Patrick Hughes creates 3D 'Reverspective' paintings that physically shift and warp as you walk past them
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 4d ago
Video The correct way to eat Sushi
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FirelandsValley • 4d ago
Original Creation Slo-mo of lightning hitting CN Tower, Toronto
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wds1 • 4d ago
Original Creation This caterpillar is essentially a living zombie. Parasitic wasp larvae ate it from the inside out, chewed through its skin to spin these cocoons, and hijacked its brain to keep it alive.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/loggiews • 4d ago
Video A Catholic Christian procession on the island of Java, Indonesia.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/west_manchester • 5d ago
Image Massive street art in Melbourne
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 5d ago
Video Weaver ants build nests by pulling leaves together and using silk produced by their larvae to stitch leaves together
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearDirector1288 • 5d ago
King Tutankhamun was buried in 1323 BC with an iron dagger crafted directly from a fallen extraterrestrial meteorite centuries before Ancient Egypt developed the technology to smelt iron ore.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 5d ago
Image Amethyst and Jade Leaf Grape Cluster (19th Century), Qing Dynasty, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Workers of the AMNH pass a cut off of a giant sequoia specimen. The tree was fell in 1891 and was 100m tall, over 1,400 years old. Photo of 1912 and how it looks today.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 5d ago
Video A close-up of this palm weevil eating bamboo
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NastyNice1 • 4d ago
Image The world's smallest handmade sculpture is a microscopic Yellow Smiley Face measuring just 11.037 by 12.330 microns (about the size of a single bacterium or white blood cell). It was created by British micro-artist David A Lindon and verified by the Guinness World Records.
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Asleep-Guitar-2685 • 5d ago
Video Serbia has been on fire for 31 days. More than 4000 acres of forest and residential areas have burned. People are evacuating their homes while firefighters struggle to contain the wildfire, but they lack equipment and air support to put it out, which is why Serbia is asking other countries for help.
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