In 1927, University of Queensland physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a sealed glass funnel.

Conservators working on artefacts from Cape Adare found a roughly century-old Huntley & Palmers fruitcake still wrapped in paper inside the remains of a badly corroded tin.

Danionella cerebrum is translucent and no longer than about 12 millimeters, yet males can make pulses measuring more than 140 decibels at a distance of 10 to 12 millimeters.