The 60 Most Surprising Photos Of 2013

December 16, 2013

The US Fish and Wildlife Service confiscate a gorilla hand with a chipped manicure in Baltimore, Maryland.

A group of (hopefully) friends contort themselves into a wall as part of Porto, Portugal’s “Bodies in Urban Spaces” project.

Green algae blankets a Qingdao beach. While aesthetically unpleasing, the seaweed is non-toxic.

During halftime at a LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders soccer game, a dinosaur representing LA’s Natural History Museum took to the green.

Pope Francis poses with the youth at Saint Peter’s Basilica.

A deer stranded on the roof in Verneuil-sur-Indre, France.

Over the summer, the Elbe river in Germany flooded over. This scene is taken from Magdeburg.

A pet tiger makes a good pillow for a chihuahua in Maringa, Brazil.

Children beating a gay rights activist protesting in Russia, following the proposal of a new law that would effectively prohibit gay rights rallies.

Palestinian boys running from explosions, carting away AK47s. Each year, Islamic Jihad runs paramilitary summer camps for over 10,000 children.