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Babies

Aarhus, Denmark

Gongen (The Gong)

A massive bell inside a Danish library rings to announce the birth of a baby in the city.

Sønderborg, Denmark

Hønekilden (The Hen Spring)

This enchanting spring, steeped in local lore and a touch of royal history, was said to be the place where newborns were collected, rather than being delivered by storks.

Many-armed sunflower sea stars are fast-moving and can grow to the diameter of a bicycle tire, making them formidable hunters.

Baby Sea Stars Are Voracious Predators That Might Just Save an Ecosystem

Along the Pacific Coast, fast and furious sunflower sea stars are vicious hunters as adults—and they're even hungrier when young.

Roxanne Hoorn February 27, 2024

Biologists on the Canary Islands only became aware of the islands’ robust population of angelsharks about a decade ago.

This Fake Beach in the Canary Islands Is a Baby Shark Paradise

Tenerife's Playa de las Teresitas attracts tourists looking for sun—and endangered angelsharks.

Dag Goering July 10, 2023

Deutsches Kinderwagenmuseum

Deutsches Kinderwagenmuseum (German Stroller Museum)

Take a stroll through the history of prams, carriages, and other ways we move babies around.

There are thought to be more than 300 belugas in captivity across 13 different countries, with the highest number housed in Russia, Japan, China, Ukraine, Canada, and the United States.

The Tricky Business of Saving a Baby Beluga

For the first time, scientists were able to save a young whale stranded in Cook Inlet. What should happen next?

Sarah Durn February 7, 2022

Wheel of the Exposed

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

Taking babies out for a pram ride at the Essex Babes' Hotel and Nursery Training Centre in 1926.

The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Pram Collection

One devoted Englishman accumulated hundreds of historic baby carriages.

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie February 8, 2021

Bunnies

Okazaki Shrine

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

'Día y Noche' (Day and Night)

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

The giant babies of Prague.

Prague, Czechia

'Babies'

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

The final frontier.

Early Chinese Trick Photography Sent Chubby Babies Into Space

Inside a historian’s collection of endearing, goofy early 20th-century portraits.

Sabrina Imbler February 20, 2020

The annual event is called Kwita Izina—“give a name” in Kinyarwanda, the country’s indigenous language.

How to Name a Mountain Gorilla in Rwanda

Start with an ancestral ceremony for human babies. Then add 30,000 people who want to save the endangered, majestic primates.

Chloe Berge October 18, 2019

Archaeologists found these Late Bronze Age feeding vessels in Vösendorf, Austria.

Found: Milk Residue That Proves Ancient Europeans Used Cute-as-Heck Baby Bottles

The clay vessels are shaped like mythical animals.

Reina Gattuso October 1, 2019

Florence, Italy

Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.