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Jackie Leek takes her giant pet tortoise — an eight-year-old African sulcata called Mr Miyagi — on his regular walk to the Crossing Pub in Morecambe, UK on September 25, 2024. Mr Miyagi, who weighs about three stone and will eventually reach ten, also enjoys caravanning holidays. (Photo by William Lailey/South West News Service)

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29 Sep 2024 05:01:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Some Photos: Starry Sky

Paul Dixon is an engineer by day and an astrophotographer by night. He shot this broken boat on Dungeness beach, Kent in the last decade of August 2024, 17 times, stacking the images upon each other before combining them with a similar composite of the Milky Way. (Photo by Paul Dixon/Media Drum Images)

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10 Jul 2025 04:02:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Pictures of the Year 2024, Part 169/240

Sweden's Sweden's Henrik von Eckermann, riding King Edward, during the Equestrian Team Jumping finals, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, August 2, 2024, in Versailles, France. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)

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Fact International Exhibition "Engineering Technologies 2012" (Moscow)

KAMAZ-63968 Typhoon Photos by Vitaly Kuzmin

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30 Jun 2012 07:50:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Macro or Micro?

Micro or Macro? It's micro: this is an electron microscope image of the wing of a Green Darner dragonfly. (Photo by P. Kelly)

Macro or Micro? Scientists’ pictures baffle our sense of scale. It began when Stephen Young, a geography professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, tricked his biologist colleague Paul Kelly into thinking a satellite image was one of his electron microscope scans. Can you guess whether they are close-up or very far away? (Photo by Paul Kelly)

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21 Apr 2014 10:24:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Cuban Crocodiles in Zapata Swamp National Park

Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer), are seen in a hatchery at Zapata Swamp National Park, June 4, 2015. Ten baby crocodiles have been delivered to a Cuban hatchery in hopes of strengthening the species and extending the bloodlines of a pair of Cuban crocodiles that former President Fidel Castro had given to a Soviet cosmonaut as a gift in the 1970s. Picture taken June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

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15 Jun 2015 12:34:00,post received 0 comments

Fact A Look at Life in Ukraine

A man dressed as the “Star Wars” character Darth Vader sits on a bench in central Lviv, Ukraine, November 24, 2016. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

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Fact Typhoon in Philippines

A passenger inter-island ferry Shuttle RoRo 5 is pictured after it was swept ashore at the height of Typhoon Nock-Ten in Mabini, Batangas in the Philippines December 26, 2016. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

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