Woman fearlessly somersaults over exercise ball to claim record with unique talent
Do you have a unique skill that no one else has? At Guinness World Records, we love celebrating…
Meet ‘The Baroness’: World’s longest wild snake at 23 feet, still growing in the Indonesian jungle |
A colossal reticulated python, dubbed ‘The Baroness,’ has been verified as the world’s longest wild snake in South…
All the unflattering things oldest person ever Jeanne Calment said about Vincent van Gogh
Finally, he moved to what he deemed the ‘Yellow House’ in Arles, France, which happened to be Jeanne’s…
Senior sea cow Romeo crowned the oldest manatee ever at Florida marine park
The year after his arrival at the Miami Seaquarium in 1957, a female manatee (first called Mabel) was…
Snuggle up to this: Student sculptor makes the largest sock monkey sculpture
Art student Emilia Evans-Munton (UK) took on a gargantuan project for her degree show – making the world’s…
Indonesian python makes GWR hissstory as the longest measured wild snake
As well as being measured with a surveyor’s tape, the python was also weighed (while placed in a…
Elvis Presley’s personal barber sold a lock of The King’s hair for record amount
The Elvis fan paid a massive $115,120 (£72,791, including buyer’s premium) for the hair. It measured around 3…
Shortest horse to tallest water buffalo: animals who broke records with unique looks
As always at Guinness World Records, we strive to celebrate the unique and unusual, and we also love animals! Here,…
Meet Radha, the adorable world’s smallest water buffalo measuring just over two feet!
If you heard the clump-clump of four heavy feet rounding the corner of a farm in Malawadi, Maharashtra,…
Is your spaceship falling out of the sky? Be careful, you could get a fine for littering!
Way back in 1979, as the defunct American space station Skylab re-entered Earth’s atmosphere as a falling firework,…
First Black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight becomes oldest man to fly to space at age 90
When Ed Dwight (USA) was four years old, he built a toy aeroplane out of orange crates in the…
Wainui the alpaca leaves behind legacy as oldest of his species
Record-breaking alpaca Hawthornden Wainui has left behind a legacy following his tragic death. The beloved pet, who lived…