Iconic Photos Of Animals Throughout History (Viral Tweets)

Discovering things about animals throughout history is one of our all-time favorite things to do. We love animals now, and in theory, we know that people have always loved animals, but seeing picture of it brings up completely different emotions in us. You simply don't expect for there to be a whole collection of pictures of naval ship cats in tiny hammocks throughout history, to see a countless number of painting of cats destroying things over the centuries, or to read about an ancient old shark that is said to be 400 or so years old.

Every single one of those pictures is unexpected, and every single one is iconic. And so are the pictures that you're about to see today. They will invoke more emotions from you than you thought possible, we promise you that, and you will be amazed both by animals and by people yet again.

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How is it that one picture can invoke so many emotions in us? Our heart is both warmed and broken at the same time. Because we feel this. We understand this. Anyone who says cats are not good companions doesn't know what they are talking about. They are human enough, and they make us unfathomably happy.
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There are so many times when we come across some piece of information about nature online that remind us just how big the world is. To think that we consider humans getting to the age of 100 an achievement when species like this live up to almost 400. The mysteries of nature, and of the ocean in particular, will never cease to amaze us.
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