Hounded: 7 Abandoned Greyhound Racing Tracks
Dogged by persistent allegations of animal cruelty – some proven to be true – greyhound racing tracks near and far have lost the public's puppy love. Rack 'n' Roll Though greyhounds ...
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Forever Homeless: 7 Closed & Abandoned Pet Shops
These closed and abandoned pet shops eerily echo with the long lost sights, sounds and smells (oh, those smells!) of what were effectively urban retail zoos. Why Not Both? It's a pet shop, ...
Human-Sheep Embryos to Lab-Grown Leather: Biotechnology and Animals
Considering that it produces such controversial projects as human-sheep embryos, it's not surprising that biotechnology is often at the center of thorny ethical debates. It’s one of those fuzzy ...
Floating Whales & Other Unlikely Creatures Invade Cities in Murals by Nevercrew
Swiss street art duo NEVERCREW recently completed 'Sensing Machine No.3,' a mural outside the historic Paris institution of street art known as Le M.U.R., depicting a whale reflecting the city. ...
Cats! Cats! Cats! 20+ Fun Feline-Focused Works of Art & Design
In ancient times, after their domestication by the Egyptians, cats may have saved many humans from starvation and disease, which might help explain why we still worship them to this day. Or maybe ...
Doing Our Dirty Work: Crows Trained to Clean Up Cigarette Butts
Should we really be training ultra-smart birds to do our dirty work for us, picking up cigarette butts all over our cities in exchange for treats? One Dutch start-up hopes their clever ...
Architecture for Animals: 13 Structures Designed with Non-Human Use in Mind
If we’re going to keep animals in artificial environments to make money off gawking at them, you’d hope we’d at least design these structures sensitively, hiring top architects to give them ...
Wild & Scrappy: 3D Trash Sculptures of Animals Pop Up in Urban Spaces
Literally popping out of city walls in three dimensions, wild animals emerge from a jumble of car parts, corrugated metal and random industrial objects masterfully layered and painted by Bordalo ...
Figurative Furniture: 15 Designs With Life of Their Own
Does the human tendency to place a higher value on living things that resemble our own image even extend to furniture? You might think so from the range of anthropomorphic designs we’ve created ...
Amazing Animal Art: 50+ Creature-Inspired Creations
As seen through the eyes of sculptors, painters, street artists, photographers and even knitters, the animal kingdom flourishes in curlicues of steel and paper, splatters of ink and trailing ...
