Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world.

Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg). picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

During the ice age it adorned a fearsome woolly mammoth.

Reappearing from the mists of time, the 4ft-long piece of tusk was washed up on a Yorkshire beach. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Floor plans of tiny little houses designed by Jay Shafer that you can buy or build yourself. I think the Weebee is pretty cute. picked by indisguise 2 years ago

A Norfolk woman has had woolly jumpers knitted for 1,500 balding rescued former battery hens.
Jo Eglen, who runs the Little Hen Rescue Centre in Norwich, has rescued and re-homed a total of 5,750 battery hens. picked by bingo 9 months ago

Astronomers have found nine of the faintest, tiniest and most compact galaxies ever seen. The little objects are hundreds to thousands of times smaller and vastly younger than our Milky Way, lending support to a "building block" theory in which hundreds of the tiny galaxies merge together and form larger bodies of stars. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

If you were looking for the skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth, Monday was your day to buy. Christie's auction house sold one for $421,200 _ a world record.

Follow up to this story. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species. picked by suebe 1 year ago