It is always fascinating to see a huge statue. Have you seen one? There a quite a number of big statues around the world. Here are few of the biggest.

Reclining Buddha, Wat Pho, Bangkok

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Take a look at these pictures of animals that some people are keeping as pets. Are these pets cute or weird?

Sphynx Cat

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Melanie Typaldos of Buda, Texas, is the proud owner of Caplin, a capybara. “I absolutely love Caplin and Caplin loves me too,” she says.
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Look at this cool and functional design of the Herzog and De Meuron Vitrahaus in Switzerland. Design Boom says “The concept of the ‘Vitrahaus’ connects two themes which are occurring in the architectural practice of Herzog and De Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and that of stacked volumes. The five-storey structure is comprised of 12 ‘houses’ – five houses are set at the base in which seven other houses are stacked upon one another.”

Vitrahaus Pictures:

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Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

This is an amazing project from Rachel Sussman. See the pictures below of the oldest living things in the world.

La Llareta (Up to 3,000 years old; Atacama Desert, Chile) – The extraordinary 3,000-year-old relative of parsley that looks like moss but is a shrub grows in the Atacama desert in the high Andes at an altitude of 15,000ft. Measuring 8-10ft across, it inhabits the surface of smooth, round boulders. It is a dense mass of thousands of tiny branches, each ending in a bud with tiny green leaves, and is so tough you can stand on top of it.

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So how do big animals like camels make love? Simple. Look at the pictures below.

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